Fath-Ali Khan Afshar (Persian: فتحعلی خان افشار), was a chieftain from the Afshar tribe of Urmia, and one of the four contenders for supremacy in Iran...

Fath-Ali Khan: Fath-Ali Khan Afshar (1700—1763), khan of the Urmia Khanate (1747—1748). Fath-Ali Khan Qajar (1686—1726), chieftain of Astarabad (1720—1726)...

the spring of 1762, Karim Khan Zand invaded Azerbaijan to force Fath-Ali Khan Afshar and his Urmia Khanate to submit. Ali Khan Shaqaqi submitted and supplied...

Khan Afshar, who was then appointed governor by Ebrahim Shah. However, Mehdi Khan Afshar was then overthrown by Azad Khan Afghan, and Fath 'Ali Khan became...

chieftain Fath-Ali Khan Afshar besieged Shusha. Panah Ali Khan made him lift the siege by giving Ibrahim Khalil Khan as hostage. By 1762, Karim Khan had established...

After the death of Karim Khan in 1779, two factions emerged, one supporting Abol-Fath, one his younger brother Mohammad Ali Khan Zand. Both were still children...

Andalusian writer Fatḥ al-Din Ibn Sayyid al-Nās (1272–1334), Egyptian theologian Fath al-Qal'i, ruler of Aleppo in 1016 Fath-Ali Khan Afshar (fl. 1747-1748)...

assassinated on 17 June 1797, and was succeeded by his nephew, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. Agha Mohammad Khan's reign is noted for the return of a centralized and unified...

province. Azad Khan Afghan, a Pashtun warlord got Azerbaijan. Tabriz became the capital of Najaf Qoli Khan's kingdom with Fath-Ali Khan Afshar as his deputy...

However, he soon faced another invasion from south, this time by Fath-Ali Khan Afshar, Khan of Urmia, in 1759. The Armenian meliks of Talish and Jraberd,...

the Afshar chief Fath-Ali Khan, attacked Karim at Qomesa and occupied Shiraz, driving him to Kazerun. The Zands eventually defeated Fath-Ali Khan and...

"Inversion in history". Pishineh (in Persian) (1): 28–35. Afshar Far, Naser (2003). Life of Fath-Ali Shah (in Persian). Tehran: Ahl-e-Qalam Publications....

Tahmasp Khan Jalayer commanded the right flank of the army, and to the south, joint command of the left was given to Fath-Ali Khan Kiani and Lotf-Ali Khan Afshar...

Khorasan. When Agha Muhammad Khan died in 1797 and Fath Ali Shah (his nephew) sat on the throne of Persia, Nadir Mirza Afshar was appointed as Governor of...

Khan Khamseh-Afshar (Persian: امان الله خان خمسه افشار) was one of the most prominent commanders in the army of the Qajar shah (king) of Iran, Fath-Ali...

previously captured territory due to a series of mutinies by Fath-Ali Khan Afshar and Shahbaz Khan Donbali, along with other high-ranking Qajar officers. The...

was the son of Fath Ali Khan and the father of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, who founded the Qajar dynasty of Iran. Mohammad Hasan Khan was driven from Astarabad...

refused.[page needed] Tahmasp and the Qajar leader Fath Ali Khan (the ancestor of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar) contacted Nader and asked him to join their...

formed an alliance with Fath-Ali Khan Afshar against Karim Khan Zand, later betraying him to the latter. After Karim Khan's death he forged alliance...

Hossein Ali Mirza (Persian: حسین‌علی میرزا, romanized: Ḥosayn-ʿAlī Mīrzā; 26 August 1789 – 16 January 1835), a son of Fath-Ali Shah (r. 1797–1834), was...

household of his close friend, the crown prince Baba Khan (later known by his regnal name of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar) in the city of Shiraz. Following the death...

The small band of warriors under local warlord Nader Qoli of the Turkoman Afshar tribe in north-east Iran were no more than a few hundred men. Yet at the...

the city and send the khan to Shusha. However, he soon faced another invasion from south, this time by Fath-Ali Khan Afshar, Khan of Urmia, in 1759. Using...

زند Abol-Fath Khan Zand, 1779 ابوالفتح خان زند Sadeq Khan Zand, 1779–1782 صادق خان زند Ali-Morad Khan Zand, 1782–1785 علیمراد خان زند Jafar Khan, 1785–1789...

Khanate underwent a new attack from Fath-Ali Khan Afshar, ruler of Urmia. With his 30,000 strong army, Fath-Ali Khan also managed to gain support from the meliks...

Mohammad Khan would have chosen Abbas Mirza instead of Fath-Ali Shah as shah if he had lived longer. Fath-Ali Shah's eldest son, Mohammad-Ali Mirza Dowlatshah...

of Iran from 1834 to 1848, inheriting the throne from his grandfather, Fath-Ali Shah. From a young age, Mohammad Mirza was under the tutelage of Haji Mirza...

tribes, and thus Mehdi Khan repulsed the attacks of Azad Khan. Taking advantage of the weakening power of the khan of Erivan, Fath-Ali Shah decided to capture...

powerful chieftains in Khorasan during the reigns of Agha Mohammad Khan and Fath Ali Shah. He was fluent in Persian and Arabic. Eshaq overcame extraordinary...

Ali Khan Jalayir - vizier and military commander during reign of Shahrukh Afshar. Fath Ali Khan Yalangtush Khan I (d.1826) - son of Fath Ali Khan, during...