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    Domains of Iran, commonly referred to as Afsharid Iran or the Afsharid Empire, was an Iranian empire established by the Turkoman Afshar tribe in Iran's north-eastern...
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    The military forces of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran had their origins in the relatively obscure yet bloody inter-factional violence in Khorasan during...
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    The Afsharid dynasty (Persian: افشاریان) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747) of the Qirqlu clan of the Turkoman Afshar tribe,...
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    re-established a unified Iranian state with Twelver Shi'ism as the official religion. During the Afsharid Empire in the 18th century, Iran was a leading world...
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    Adel Shah (category Afsharid monarchs)
    second shah of Afsharid Iran, ruling from 1747 to 1748. He was the nephew and successor of Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747), the founder of the Afsharid dynasty. Adel...
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    Guarded Domains of Iran (Persian: ممالک محروسهٔ ایران, Mamâlek-e Mahruse-ye Irân), or simply the Domains of Iran (ممالک ایران, Mamâlek-e Irân) and the Guarded...
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    Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly called Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires. It was...
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    Nader Shah's invasion of India (category Wars involving Afsharid Iran)
    Emperor Nader Shah, the Shah of Iran (1736–1747) and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, invaded Northern India, eventually attacking Delhi in March 1739...
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    ease, putting an end to the Afsharid dynasty. He was formally crowned as Shah after his punitive campaign against Iran's Georgian subjects. In the Caucasus...
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    State of Iran, officially known in English as the Imperial State of Persia until 1935, and commonly referred to as Pahlavi Iran, was the Iranian state under...
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  • Razia Begum Safavi (category People from Afsharid Iran)
    Razia Begum Safavi (Persian: راضیه بیگم صفوی) (1700–1776) was a Safavid princess and the royal consort of shah Nader Shah of Persia (r. 1736–1747). She...
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    Iran sustained maritime forces during Afsharid dynasty that were revived in 1734 by Nader Shah, with peak of its activity lasting more than a decade until...
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    Mashhad (redirect from Mashhad, Iran)
    Between 1736 and 1796, Mashhad became the capital of Afsharid Iran which was ruled by the Afsharid dynasty founded by Nader Shah, whose tomb is located...
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    Ottoman–Persian War of 1743–1746 was fought between the Ottoman Empire and Afsharid Iran. Persia attempted to ratify the Treaty of Constantinople, by demanding...
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    The Iranian revolution (Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), also known as the 1979 revolution, or the Islamic revolution of...
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    followed by a period of anarchy in Iran as rival army commanders fought for power. Nader's own family, the Afsharids, were soon reduced to holding on to...
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    Mohammad Khan Baloch (category Battles involving Afsharid Iran)
    against Nader shah. Mohammad Khan Baloch became military commander in Afsharid Iran, who functioned as governor under Nader Shah. he recruited troops to...
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    Chokhur-e Sa'd, was a khanate (i.e., province) that was established in Afsharid Iran in the 18th century. It covered an area of roughly 19,500 km2, and corresponded...
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  • Safavid Iran (1501–1736) Afsharid Iran (1736 –c.1750) Zand Iran (1750–1794) Qajar Iran (1794–1925) Pahlavi Iran (1925–1979) Islamic Republic of Iran (1979–present)...
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  • Treaty of Kerden (category Treaties of Afsharid Iran)
    Empire and Afsharid Iran on 4 September 1746. It concluded the Ottoman-Persian War of 1743-1746. During the last years of the Safavid dynasty in Iran, Ottomans...
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    Persian: مرو, romanized: Marv), also known as the Merve Oasis, was a major Iranian city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, near today's Mary, Turkmenistan...
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    Persia-related topics -stan Pan-Iranism These include the Medes, Achaemenids, Parthians, Sasanians, Samanids, Saffarids, Safavids, Afsharids and Qajars. For example...
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    dynasty of Iran, ruling from March 15, 1781, until February 11, 1785. Ali-Morad Khan Zand was born in c. 1740, when Iran was ruled by the Afsharid dynasty...
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    Campaigns of Nader Shah (category Wars involving Afsharid Iran)
    unanimous support of the Iranian ruling elite. Nader Shah's first campaign as the monarch of the newly established Afsharid dynasty was the subjugation...
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  • Ancient Iranian religion or Iranian paganism was a set of ancient beliefs and practices of the Iranian peoples before the rise of Zoroastrianism. The religion...
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    Mughal–Persian wars (category Wars involving Safavid Iran)
    wars fought in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries between the Safavid and Afsharid Empires of Persia, and the Mughal Empire of Hindustan, over what is now...
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  • romanized: riyâl-è Irân; sign: ﷼ ; abbreviation: Rl (singular) and Rls (plural) or IR in Latin; ISO code: IRR) is the official currency of Iran. It is subdivided...
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    Turkmenistan Iranian Turks Afghan Turkmens Nader Shah Afsharid Dynasty Afsharid Iran Arakelova, Victoria (2015). "On the Number of Iranian Turkophones". Iran and...
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    Battle of Khyber Pass (1738) (category Battles involving Afsharid Iran)
    was an engagement fought in the mid-eighteenth century between the Afsharid Iran of Nader Shah and the Mughal vassal state of Peshawar. The result of...
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    Durrani Campaign to Khorasan (1754–55) (category Battles involving Afsharid Iran)
    effectively as a Durrani protectorate. Ahmad Shah Durrani Durrani Empire Afsharid Iran Noelle-Karimi, Christine (2014). The Pearl in Its Midst: Herat and the...
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