The sultanate was located in the north-west of the Erivan khanate at the foot of Aragats mountain.

According to the information given during the reign of Nadir Shah, there were 109 villages in Shoragel district as a part of Erivan khanate.

[citation needed] In 1804, Russian troops invaded Shoragel resulting in the exodus of large portion of the local Muslim population[citation needed] and the final abolition of the Shoragel sultanate in 1805.

Abandoned villages were eventually inhabited by the Armenian population resettled from Ottoman Empire.

[4] Part of the Shoragel residents, mainly Karapapakh Turks, left their lands in the wake of the Russo-Turkish war in 1807 and found refuge in the territories of Erivan khanate and Kars pashalyk.