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65 relations: A History of the World in 100 Objects, Abbas I of Persia, Abbas III, Afsharid dynasty, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Al-Mansur, Ali Morad Bakhtiari, Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, Axworthy, Banu Abbas, Battle of Damghan (1729), Battle of Gulnabad, Battle of Herat (1729), Battle of Kafer Qal'eh, Battle of Karnal, Battle of Kars (1745), Battle of Khwar Pass, Battle of Kirkuk (1733), Battle of Krtsanisi, Battle of Murche-Khort, Battle of Samarra (1733), Battle of Sangan, Battle of Yeghevārd, Battle of Zarghan, Campaigns of Nader Shah, Caucasus Campaign (1735), Fellows of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Georgia–Persia relations, History of Iran, Iranian Islamic Republic referendum, March 1979, Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces, Ismail I, Khorasan Campaign, King's School, Chester, Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti, List of Qurchi-bashis, Mahmud Hotak, Military of the Afsharid dynasty of Persia, Moḥammad Taqi Khan Shirazi's Rebellion, Mohammad Khan Baluch's Rebellion, Morwenstow, Nader Shah, Nader Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire, Nader's Dagestan campaign, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, National Council of Resistance of Iran, People's Mujahedin of Iran, Persian famine of 1917–1919, Peter Oborne, Qajar dynasty, ..., Ruhollah Khomeini, Sabzevar expedition, Sack of Shamakhi (1721), Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam, Safavid dynasty, Sally Axworthy, Selim I, Shah Mosque, Shusha, Siege of Baghdad (1733), Siege of Ganja (1734), Siege of Kandahar, Tahmasp Khan Jalayer, Tahmasp's campaign of 1731, Woking. Expand index (15 more) »
A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects was a joint project of BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, comprising a 100-part radio series written and presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor.
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Abbas I of Persia
Shāh Abbās the Great or Shāh Abbās I of Persia (شاه عباس بزرگ; 27 January 157119 January 1629) was the 5th Safavid Shah (king) of Iran, and is generally considered the strongest ruler of the Safavid dynasty.
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Abbas III
Abbas III (January 1732 – February 1740) (شاه عباس سوم.) reigned 1732–1736; was a son of Shah Tahmasp II and Shahpuri Begum of the Safavid dynasty.
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Afsharid dynasty
The Afsharid dynasty (افشاریان) were members of an Iranian dynasty that originated from the Turkic Afshar tribe in Iran's north-eastern province of Khorasan, ruling Persia in the mid-eighteenth century.
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Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (translit; 14 March 1742 – 17 June 1797), also known by his regnal name of Agha Mohammad Shah (آقا محمد شاه), was the founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, ruling from 1789 to 1797 as king (shah).
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Al-Mansur
Al-Mansur or Abu Ja'far Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Mansur (95 AH – 158 AH (714 AD– 6 October 775 AD); أبو جعفر عبدالله بن محمد المنصور) was the second Abbasid Caliph reigning from 136 AH to 158 AH (754 AD – 775 AD)Axworthy, Michael (2008); A History of Iran; Basic, USA;.
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Ali Morad Bakhtiari
Ali Morad Bakhtiari (Luri/Alī-Morād Bakhtīārī) was the Bakhtiari chieftain of the Chahar Lang branch in the early 18th-century, who in 1735 revolted against the de facto ruler of Safavid Iran, Nader Qoli Beg.
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Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran
The Alliance of Builders or Developers of Islamic Iran (ائتلاف آبادگران ایران اسلامی; E'telāf-e Ābādgarān-e Īrān-e Eslāmī), usually shortened to Abadgaran (آبادگران), was an Iranian conservative political federation of parties and organizations.
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Axworthy
Axworthy is a surname.
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Banu Abbas
The Banu Abbas (بنو عباس) are an Arabian tribe, descendants of Al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib.
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Battle of Damghan (1729)
The Battle of Damghan or Battle of Mihmandoost was fought on September 29 to October 5, 1729, near the city of Damghan.
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Battle of Gulnabad
The Battle of Gulnabad (Sunday, March 8, 1722) was fought between the military forces from Hotaki Dynasty and the army of the Safavid Empire.
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Battle of Herat (1729)
After the succession of setbacks the Abdalis of Herat had faced in the campaign Allahyar Khan decided to sully out for a last engagement to decide the issue.
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Battle of Kafer Qal'eh
The Battle of Kafer Qal'eh was a series of clashes which decided the outcome to the Herat Campaign.
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Battle of Karnal
The Battle of Karnal (February 24, 1739), was a decisive victory for Nader Shah of Iran, during his invasion of Mughal dynasty of India.
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Battle of Kars (1745)
The Battle of Kars (August 19, 1745) was the last major engagement of the Ottoman-Persian War.
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Battle of Khwar Pass
The Battle of Khwar Pass was a failed ambush set up by Ashraf Hotaki during his retreat in the aftermath of his defeat at Mihmandoost.
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Battle of Kirkuk (1733)
The Battle of Kirkuk, also known as the Battle of Agh-Darband was the last battle in Nader Shah's Mesopotamian campaign where he avenged his earlier defeat at the hands of the Ottoman general Topal Osman Pasha, in which Nader achieved suitable revenge after defeating and killing him at the battle of Kirkuk.
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Battle of Krtsanisi
The Battle of Krtsanisi (კრწანისის ბრძოლა, k'rts'anisis brdzola) was fought between the Qajars of Iran and the Georgian armies of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and Kingdom of Imereti at the place of Krtsanisi near Tbilisi, Georgia, from September 8 to September 11, 1795, as part of Qajar Emperor Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar's war in response to King Heraclius II of Georgia’s alliance with the Russian Empire.
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Battle of Murche-Khort
The Battle of Murche-Khort was the last decisive engagement of Nader's campaign to restore Tahmasp II to the Persian throne.
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Battle of Samarra (1733)
The Battle of Samarra was the key engagement between the two great generals Nader & Topal Osman, which led to the siege of Baghdad being lifted, keeping Ottoman Iraq under Istanbul's control.
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Battle of Sangan
The Battle of Sangan was an engagement involving the Loyalist forces of Tahmasp II of the Safavid dynasty led by Nader and the Abdali Afghan Tribes in and further beyond southern Khorasan in 1727.
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Battle of Yeghevārd
The Battle of Yeghevārd, also known as the Battle of Baghavard or Morad Tapeh, was the final major engagement of the Perso-Ottoman War of 1730–1735 where the principal Ottoman army in the Caucasus theatre under Koprulu Pasha's command was utterly destroyed by only the advance guard of Nader's army before the main Persian army could enter into the fray.
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Battle of Zarghan
The Battle of Zarghan was the last battle of Ashraf Hotaki's career as a statesman.
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Campaigns of Nader Shah
The campaigns of Nader Shah were a series of conflicts fought in the early to mid-eighteenth century throughout Central Eurasia primarily by the Persian conqueror Nader Shah.
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Caucasus Campaign (1735)
The Caucasus Campaign of 1734-1735 was the last great campaign of the Ottoman–Persian War (1730–35) which ended in a Persian victory allowing Nader to recast Persian hegemony over almost the entire Caucasus, region, reconconquering it for the Safavid state.
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Fellows of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland are the individuals who have been elected by the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science literature and the arts in relation to Asia".
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Georgia–Persia relations
Persia and Georgia have had relations for thousands of years.
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History of Iran
The history of Iran, commonly also known as Persia in the Western world, is intertwined with the history of a larger region, also to an extent known as Greater Iran, comprising the area from Anatolia, the Bosphorus, and Egypt in the west to the borders of Ancient India and the Syr Darya in the east, and from the Caucasus and the Eurasian Steppe in the north to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the south.
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Iranian Islamic Republic referendum, March 1979
A referendum on creating an Islamic Republic was held in Iran on 30 and 31 March 1979.
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Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces
The Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces (نیروی زمینی ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران), acronymed NEZAJA (نزاجا) is the ground forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army.
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Ismail I
Ismail I (Esmāʿīl,; July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), also known as Shah Ismail I (شاه اسماعیل), was the founder of the Safavid dynasty, ruling from 1501 to 23 May 1524 as Shah of Iran (Persia).
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Khorasan Campaign
The Conquest of Khorasan by Safavid loyalist forces against separatists in Khorasan was Nader's first major military campaign which he waged on behalf of the new Safavid pretender to the throne, Tahmasp II.
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King's School, Chester
The King's School, Chester is a British co-educational independent school for children, established in 1541.
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Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (ქართლ-კახეთის სამეფო) (1762–1801) was created in 1762 by the unification of two eastern Georgian kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti.
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List of Qurchi-bashis
The Qurchi-bashi (قورچیباشی), also spelled Qorchi-bashi (قرچیباشی), was the head of the qurchis, the royal bodyguard of the Safavid shah.
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Mahmud Hotak
Shāh Mahmūd Hotak, (شاه محمود هوتک), also known as Shāh Mahmūd Ghiljī (شاه محمود غلجي) (lived 1697 – April 22, 1725), was an Afghan ruler of the Hotak dynasty who overthrew the heavily declined Safavid dynasty to briefly become the king of Persia from 1722 until his death in 1725.
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Military of the Afsharid dynasty of Persia
The military forces of the Afsharid dynasty of Persia had their origins in the relatively obscure yet bloody inter-factional violence in Khorasan during the collapse of the Safavid state.
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Moḥammad Taqi Khan Shirazi's Rebellion
Nāder's loss of prestige in the Dagestan campaign and his ongoing war with the Ottomans caused several domestic rebellions.
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Mohammad Khan Baluch's Rebellion
In the aftermath of Nader's crippling defeat and expulsion from Ottoman Baghdad the commander who was put in charge of the 12,000 soldiers to maintain the siege of the city, Mohammad Khan Baluch, fled from Mesopotamia and returned to southern Persia where taking advantage of Nader's shattered prestige due to his ignominious defeat at the hands of Topal Pasha at Samarra, Mohammad Khan raised the banner of rebellion in the south of the country.
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Morwenstow
Morwenstow (Logmorwenna) is a civil parish in north Cornwall, England.
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Nader Shah
Nader Shah Afshar (نادر شاه افشار; also known as Nader Qoli Beyg نادر قلی بیگ or Tahmāsp Qoli Khan تهماسپ قلی خان) (August 1688 – 19 June 1747) was one of the most powerful Iranian rulers in the history of the nation, ruling as Shah of Persia (Iran) from 1736 to 1747 when he was assassinated during a rebellion.
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Nader Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire
Emperor Nader Shah, the Shah of Persia (1736–47) and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Persia, invaded the Mughal Empire, eventually attacking Delhi in March 1739.
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Nader's Dagestan campaign
Nader's Dagestan campaign, refers to the campaigns conducted by the Persian Empire (under the Safavid and Afsharid dynasty) under the ruling king Nader Shah between the years 1741 and 1743 in order to fully subjugate the Dagestan region in the North Caucasus Area.
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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tūsī (محمد بن محمد بن حسن طوسی‎ 18 February 1201 – 26 June 1274), better known as Nasir al-Din Tusi (نصیر الدین طوسی; or simply Tusi in the West), was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian.
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National Council of Resistance of Iran
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI; Šurā-ye melli-e moqāwemat-e Īrān) is an Iranian political organization based in France.
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People's Mujahedin of Iran
The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran or the Mojahedin-e Khalq (Sāzmān-e mojāhedin-e khalq-e irān, abbreviated MEK, PMOI or MKO), commonly known in Iran as Munafiqin ("hypocrites"), is an Iranian political–militant organization in exile that advocates the violent overthrow of the current government in Iran, while claiming itself as the replacing government in exile.
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Persian famine of 1917–1919
The Great Persian famine of 1917–1919 was a period of widespread mass starvation and disease in Persia (Iran) under rule of Qajar dynasty during World War I. So far, few historians have worked on the famine that took place in the occupied territory of the country that declared neutrality, making it an understudied subject.
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Peter Oborne
Peter Alan Oborne (born 11 July 1957) is a British journalist and broadcaster.
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Qajar dynasty
The Qajar dynasty (سلسله قاجار; also Romanised as Ghajar, Kadjar, Qachar etc.; script Qacarlar) was an IranianAbbas Amanat, The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896, I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3 royal dynasty of Turkic origin,Cyrus Ghani.
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini (سید روحالله موسوی خمینی; 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Islam religious leader and politician.
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Sabzevar expedition
The Sabzevar expedition was a politically decisive event in Nader's career where he in effect turned from mere commander-in-chief of Tahmasp's forces into the real power behind the throne (although technically this still was a government in exile as the Gilzai Afghans were in control of Isfahan).
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Sack of Shamakhi (1721)
The Sack of Shamakhi took place in 1721, when rebellious Sunni Lezgins, within the declining Safavid Empire, attacked the capital of Shirvan province, Shamakhi (in present-day Azerbaijan Republic).
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Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam
The Safavid conversion of Iran from Sunni Islam to Shia Islam took place roughly over the 16th through 18th centuries and made Iran the spiritual bastion of Shia Islam.
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Safavid dynasty
The Safavid dynasty (دودمان صفوی Dudmān e Safavi) was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Iran, often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history.
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Sally Axworthy
Sally Jane Axworthy, MBE (born 1 September 1964) is a British diplomat who has been the British Ambassador to the Holy See since 2016.
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Selim I
Selim I (Ottoman Turkish: سليم اول, Modern Turkish: Birinci Selim; 1470/1 – September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute (Yavuz Sultan Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520.
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Shah Mosque
The Shah Mosque (مسجد شاه), also known as Royal Mosque or Imam Mosque after the Iranian Revolution, is a mosque in Isfahan, Iran, standing in south side of Naghsh-e Jahan Square.
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Shusha
Shusha (Şuşa; Шуша), or Shushi (Շուշի), is a city in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus.
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Siege of Baghdad (1733)
The Siege of Baghdad (1733) was a relatively short but intense siege of Ottoman-held Baghdad by the Persian army under Nader.
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Siege of Ganja (1734)
The Siege of Ganja during the last phase of the Perso-Ottoman war of 1730-1735 resulted in the surrender of the city by its Ottoman garrison after a brave defense was rendered futile by the destruction of the main Turkish army marching to its relief in the battle of Baghavard.
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Siege of Kandahar
The April 1737 siege of Kandahar began when Nader Shah's Afsharid army invaded southern Afghanistan to topple the last Hotaki stronghold of Loy Kandahar, which was held by Hussain Hotaki.
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Tahmasp Khan Jalayer
Tahmasp Khan Jalayer was one of the most prominent and battle-hardened generals of the Naderian wars and served Nader Shah from the very early days of his military career in Khorasan until he was forced to rebel during the last year of Nader's reign as Shah.
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Tahmasp's campaign of 1731
The campaign of 1731 was a failed attempt by Tahmasp II of the Safavid dynasty to launch an offensive into Ottoman held Caucasus which ended in a disastrous defeat with all of Nader's gains during the previous year being lost.
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Woking
Woking is a town in northwest Surrey, England.
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