The Pishteginids (Bishkinids, Pishkinids) were a dynasty of maliks in Iran which ruled, from 1155 to 1231, Ahar and its adjacent district as vassals to...

or the Qajar Empire, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic origin, specifically from the Qajar tribe, from 1789...

The Sajid dynasty (Persian: ساجیان, romanized: sâjiyân, also known as Banu Saj) was an Iranian Muslim dynasty that ruled from 889/890 until 929. The Sajids...

The Buyid dynasty or Buyid Empire was a Zaydi and later Twelver Shi'a dynasty of Daylamite origin. Founded by Imad al-Dawla, they mainly ruled over central...

romanized: Sāmāniyān) was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, ruled by a dynasty of Iranian dehqan origin. The empire was centred in Khorasan and Transoxiana...

The Bavand dynasty (Persian: باوندیان) (also spelled Bavend), or simply the Bavandids, was an Iranian dynasty that ruled in parts of Tabaristan (present-day...

The Dabuyid dynasty, or Gaubarid dynasty, was a Zoroastrian Iranian dynasty that started in the first half of the 7th century as an independent group...

The Zand dynasty (Persian: دودمان زندیان, romanized: Dudemāne Zandiyān) was an Iranian dynasty, founded by Karim Khan Zand (r. 1751–1779) that initially...

The Saffarid dynasty (Persian: صفاریان, romanized: safāryān) was a Persianate dynasty of eastern Iranian origin that ruled over parts of Persia, Greater...

The Tahirid dynasty (Persian: طاهریان, romanized: Tâheriyân, pronounced [t̪ɒːheɾiˈjɒːn]) was an Arabized Sunni Muslim dynasty of Persian dehqan origin...

as the Qutlugh-Khanid dynasty, Kirmanid dynasty, or very rarely as the Later Western Liao) was a culturally Persianate dynasty of ethnic Khitan origin...

The Afrasiyab or Chalavi dynasty was a relatively minor Iranian Shia dynasty of Tabaristan (present-day Mazandaran province, Iran) and flourished in the...

Kakwayhids, Kakuwayhids or Kakuyah) (Persian: آل کاکویه) were a Shia Muslim dynasty of Daylamite origin that held power in western Persia, Jibal and Kurdistan...

numerous capital cities and royal centers throughout its history. Ahar; Pishkinid dynasty Anshan; pre-Achaemenid era Ardabil; early Safavid era, Sajid Asaak;...

Empire (1501–1736). Similar to the development in China under the Yuan dynasty, the revival of the concept of territorial unity, although not intended...

Turkmens Anushtegin dynasty (AD 1153–1220) – Iran within the Khwarazmian Empire; Ruled by the Begdili tribe of the Oghuz Turks Pishkinid dynasty (AD 1155–1231)...

Kingdom'), was an Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Based in modern-day Iran, it was the largest empire by that...

Iranian dynasty of Tabaristan which ruled over Ruyan/Rustamdar. The dynasty was established in 665, and with 933 years of rule as the longest dynasty in Iran...

The Ziyarid dynasty (Persian: زیاریان) was an Iranian dynasty of Gilaki origin that ruled Tabaristan from 931 to 1090 during the Iranian Intermezzo period...

route between the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin and the Han dynasty of China, became a center of trade and commerce. The Parthians largely...

Balochistan was ruled by the Pāratarājas, the "Pātatahaa Kings", a Hindu dynasty of Indo-Scythian or Indo-Parthian kings. The Hindu Parata kings are essentially...

descendants until the early 1st-century AD, when the Parthian Arsacid dynasty supplanted them. It was conquered by the Sasanians in 226, and turned into...

The Sallarid dynasty (Persian: سالاریان), (also known as the Musafirids or Langarids) was a Muslim dynasty of Daylami origin, which ruled in Tarom, Samiran...

Astronomers, “After the death of Yazdigird III (the last king of the Sassanid dynasty), the Yazdigirdī Calendar, as a solar one, gradually lost its position...

The Mihrabanid dynasty (Persian: خاندان مهربانیان) was a Persian Muslim dynasty that ruled Sistan (or Nimruz) from 1236 until the mid-16th century. It...

beneficial marriage alliances, such as with the Mithridatic dynasty as well as the Seleucid dynasty. Strabo, who wrote during the time of Augustus (r. 63 BCE-14 AD)...

Āzarbayjan) were an Atabegate of the Seljuk Empire, and a Sunni Muslim Turkic dynasty (started by Eldiguz of Kipchak origin), which controlled most of northwestern...

The Jalayirid Sultanate (Persian: جلایریان) was a dynasty of Jalayir origin, which ruled over modern-day Iraq and western Iran after the breakup of the...

The Qarinvand dynasty (also spelled Karenvand and Qarenvand), or simply the Karenids, was an Iranian dynasty that ruled in parts of Tabaristan (Mazandaran)...

Huanqian), and Sogdians (蘇薤 Suxie) sent embassies to the Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty which was ruling China. Interesting fact that currently lands of ancient...