- The
Guarded Domains of Iran,
commonly referred to as
Afsharid Iran or the
Afsharid Empire, was an
Iranian empire established by the
Turkoman Afshar tribe...
- 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, ruling...
- on the
opportunity to
overthrow the
Safavids and
establish his own, the
Afsharid dynasty. Nader's next
campaign took him to
Qandahar where he overthrew...
-
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...
-
Iranian state with
Twelver Shi'ism as the
official religion.
During the
Afsharid Empire in the 18th century, Iran was a
leading world power, but this was...
-
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...
-
during Afsharid dynasty that were
revived in 1734 by
Nader Shah, with peak of its
activity lasting more than a
decade until Division of the
Afsharid Empire...
- wars
fought in the 16th, 17th and 18th
centuries between the
Safavid and
Afsharid Empires of Persia, and the
Mughal Empire of India, over what is now Afghanistan...
- and the
Uzbek khanates of
Bukhara and
Khiva regained independence. The
Afsharid dynasty would continue to live on in
parts of
Khorasan with
Mashhad as...
-
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...
