Southern Persian design influences. Caucasian rug influences are also strongly felt. Antique Afshar rugs from the 19th century are characterized by their...

Afshar (Azerbaijani: Əfşar افشار; Turkish: Avşar, Afşar; Turkmen: Owşar اوْوشار; Persian: افشار, romanized: Afshār) is a tribe of Oghuz Turkic origin,...

Look up Afshar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Afşar, Afshar, or Avşar may refer to: Afshar people, a branch of the Turkic Oghuz people Afshar language...

nomadic rugs, the foundation of village rugs is more predominantly of wool. Kurdish sheep wool is of high quality, and takes dyes well. Thus, a rug with...

region Persian carpet Abadeh rug, type of carpet with a large diamond pattern Afshar rugs, carpets from the Turkic Afshar tribe Ardabil Carpet, the name...

(Basseri and Khamseh Arabs), Afshar, Abadeh and Luri designs.[citation needed] Since the weavers are using fixed looms the rugs tend to be larger and often...

Heriz rugs are Azerbaijani rugs from the area of Heris in northwest Iran, northeast of Tabriz. Such rugs are produced in the village of the same name in...

civilisation. Rug weaving represents a traditional craft dating back to prehistoric times. Rugs were woven much earlier than even the oldest surviving rugs like...

JSTOR 593448. Merriam-Webster Unabridged – Afshar TDK Online – Afşar[permanent dead link] Parvis Tanavoli On Afshar Rugs Harper, Douglas. "aga". Online Etymology...

familiar name "Turk" (türk), and tribal names such as "Bayat", "Bayandur", "Afshar", and "Kayi". By the 10th century, Islamic sources were calling Oghuz Turks...

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Oriental carpets and rugs. Allen & Unwin. p. 15. Persian carpets: Tabriz, Ramadan, ... Jacobsen, Charles W. (2007). Facts about Oriental Rugs. READ BOOKS. p...

from Kermānšāh to the shores of the Persian Gulf. Stöber, Georg (2010). "Afshār". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson,...

early Oghuz Turkmen tribes of Qiniq, Begdili, Yiwa, Bayandur, Kayi and Afshar respectively. The Teke ("billy goat" in Turkmen) constitute the largest...

the Baloch, the Turkmen, the Afshars, the Bakhtyari, the Qashqai, and the Kurds, among others. The bags and the larger rugs were woven in the same techniques...

command of the left was given to Fath-Ali Khan Kiani and Lotf-Ali Khan Afshar.[citation needed] At this juncture, news was brought to Sa'adat Khan that...

Sistani 1722–1726 Afsharid dynasty Nader Shah Adil Shah Ebrahim Afshar Shahrukh Afshar Nadir Mirza of Khorasan Safavid dynasty Soleyman II Autonomous Government...

four other provinces: Hamadan (includes other Turkic ethnic groups such as Afshar, Gharehgozloo, Shahsevan, and Baharloo), Qazvin, Markazi, and Kurdistan...

(1985). Shahsavan Iranian Rugs and Textiles. New York City, NY: Rizzoli. ISBN 9780847806263. Tanavoli, Parviz (1985). Lion Rugs: The Lion in the Art and...

they rode along the Silk Road, Qizilbash amirs from the powerful Takkalu, Afshar and Zul al-Qadr tribes, who controlled many of the key towns on the way...

the major ones being in Kabul. ADEI Medical Complex Afghan-Japan Hospital Afshar Hospital Ahmad Shah Baba Hospital Ariana Medical Complex Atatürk Children's...

and the Persian Image. London: University of Washington Press, 1999. Iraj Afshar, ‘Some remarks on the early history of photography in Iran’ in Qajar Iran;...

Safavid state disintegrated, it was followed by the conquest by Nader Shah Afshar, a Shia chieftain from Khorasan who reduced the power of the ghulat Shi'a...

Shusha and the Karabakh Khanate underwent a new attack from Fath-Ali Khan Afshar, ruler of Urmia. With his 30,000 strong army, Fath-Ali Khan also managed...

the Foundation for Iranian Studies Shahriar Afshar, physicist and inventor who is the namesake of the Afshar experiment Ehsan Afshari, professor of electrical...

period in an influential family in Nishapur. After the death of Nader Shah Afshar in 1747, the area became an independent khanate under the reign of the Bayat...

of James Lawton A bottle of chilled Sancerre for every night more 28 December 2008 Haleh Afshar The poems of the Iranian poet Hafiz[5] A rose bush more...

by Iranian women are not restricted to Persian music. For instance, Lily Afshar is working on a combination of Persian and Western classical music. Googoosh...

the reproduction of a painting by El Greco on one side and the Anatolian rug embroidery on the other reveals the general tendency of the group. The Group...

at Topkapi Palace, Istanbul Anatolian double-niche rug, Konya region, circa 1750–1800 Bergama rug A modern Ottoman military band (mehter) troop A traditional...