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    Nader Shah Afshar (Persian: نادر شاه افشار; 6 August 1698 – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful...
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    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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    The campaigns of Nader Shah (Persian: لشکرکشی‌های نادرشاه), or the Naderian Wars (Persian: جنگ‌های نادری), were a series of conflicts fought in the early...
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    His remains were buried in Kabul on Nader Khan Hill (Maranjan Hill). During his reign, His Majesty Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan. Muḥammad, Fayz̤;...
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    founder, Nader Shah, was a successful military commander who deposed the last member of the Safavid dynasty in 1736, and proclaimed himself Shah. During...
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    Tomb of Nader Shah (Persian: آرامگاه نادرشاه) is a building in Mashhad designed by Hooshang Seyhoun. Nader Shah was born into an ordinary family from...
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    defeated Ibrahim Khan, a military commander and brother of Nader Shah. This prompted Nader Shah to retake Mashad and also intervene in the power struggle...
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    1748. He was the nephew and successor of Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747), the founder of the Afsharid dynasty. Adel Shah ruled a considerably smaller realm than...
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    and irreversible decline of the Mughal Empire that was exacerbated by Nader Shah's invasion of India and the sacking of Delhi in 1739. The course of events...
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    of Nader Shah in 1747, his nephew Ali-qoli Khan (who assumed the regnal name Adel Shah), ascended the throne in Mashhad and had all of Nader Shah's descendants...
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    Nader's Dagestan campaign, were the campaigns conducted by the Persian Empire under its Afsharid ruler Nader Shah between the years 1741 and 1743 in order...
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    Battle of Karnal (category Campaigns of Nader Shah)
    victory for Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran, during his invasion of India. Nader's forces defeated the army of Muhammad Shah within...
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    Nader Shah invaded India. To help Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah, Khan marched with a cavalry of 30,000 from Awadh. During his stay at Panipat, Nader Shah's...
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    Nader Shah's Sword (Persian: شمشیر نادرشاه) refers to the sword carried by Iranian ruler Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747). It is located in Tehran, Iran. Under...
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    a son of Shah Tahmasp II and Shahpari Begum of the Safavid dynasty and reigned from 1732 to 1736. After the deposition of his father by Nader Khan (the...
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    Imamiyyah was to be accepted as a fifth legal sect of Islam. In 1743, Nader Shah declared war on the Ottoman Empire. He demanded the surrender of Baghdad...
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    his name. From being granted the kingship of Kakheti by his overlord Nader Shah in 1744 as a reward for his loyalty, to becoming the penultimate king...
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  • 52. Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from tribal warrior to conquering tyrant, By Michael Axworthy, pg.165–166 "The Army of Nader Shah" (PDF). Archived from...
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    (2008). The Great Batlles of Nader Shah, p. 56. Donyaye Ketab Axworthy, Michael (2009). The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from tribal warrior to conquering...
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    When Nader Shah ordered the massacre in Delhi, neither the helpless Mughal Emperor Muhammed Shah nor any of his Ministers dared to speak to Nader Shah and...
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    Gholam-Hussein(2008). The Great Batlles of Nader Shah. Donyaye Ketab. Michael Axworthy (2010). Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering...
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  • of Bukhara. Abu al-Fayz surrendered the khanate to Nader Shah in 1740 in response to Nader Shah's broader conquest of central Asia. Some accounts say...
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    of history. After the assassination of Nader Shah at the hands of a faction of his officers in 1747, Nader's powerful army fractured as the Afsharid...
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    Afshar (Persian: رضا قلی میرزا افشار; 1719–1747) was the eldest son of Nader Shah, King of Afsharid Iran. After his father's coronation in 1736, Reza Qoli...
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    of Northern India by Nader Shah. Marvi notes the Koh-i-Noor as being one of many stones on the Mughal Peacock Throne that Nader looted from Delhi. The...
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    Hotak rule ended when Nader Shah defeated Ashraf's successor Hussain Hotak after a lengthy siege of Kandahar. Subsequently, Nader Shah began re-establishing...
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    Zaman Khan (an Afghan chieftain of the Abdali tribe) and the commander of Nader Shah Afshar. Following Afshar's death in June 1747, Ahmad secured Afghanistan...
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    Afsharid dynasty (Persian: افشاریان) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747) of the Qirqlu clan of the Turkoman Afshar tribe, ruling...
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  • Khalsa legislature. In 1738, Nader Shah of the Persian Afsharid dynasty invaded Muhammad Shah's Mughal Empire. Nadir Shah defeated the Mughal Empire in...
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    formally crowned Shah in 1796 in the Mughan plain, just as his predecessor Nader Shah was about sixty years earlier. Agha Mohammad Shah was later assassinated...
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