- years, many
Afshars moved to the east, where, as part of the Qizilbash, they
aided in
establishing the
Safavid dynasty of Iran.
Other Afshars remained in...
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Afshar or
Afshari (Azerbaijani: Əfşar) is a
Turkic dialect spoken in Iran and
Afghanistan by the
Afshars.
Ethnologue and
Glottolog list it as a dialect...
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Nazak Afshar (نازَک افشار) is a French-Iranian
woman currently imprisoned in Iran.
Iranian authorities arrested Afshar in
March 2016 upon her
arrival in...
- Iran
Urmia The
Afshars of
Urmia (also
spelled Urmiya; Persian: افشارهای ارومیه) are a
branch of the
Afshar tribe centered in the
Iranian city of Urmia...
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moved many
Afshars from
Azerbaijan to
Khorasan to
defend the north-eastern
borders of the
state against the Uzbeks,
after which the
Afshars settled in...
- Lily
Afshar (Persian: لیلی افشار; 9
March 1960 – 24
October 2023) was an Iranian-American
classical guitarist.
Afshar moved to the
United States in 1977...
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Mahnaz Afshar (Persian: مهناز افشار; born June 10, 1977) is an
Iranian actress. She
gained wide
recognition in the record-breaking film
Cease Fire (2006)...
- Iraj
Afshar (Persian: ایرج افشار; 8
October 1925 – 9
March 2011) was a bibliographer, historian, scholar, professor, and a
figure in the
field of Persian...
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Afshar (Dari: افشار) is a
hillside settlement situated in
western Kabul city, the
capital of Afghanistan. Most of its po****tion are of the
Qizilbash ethnic...
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derived from the
Mongol sayin,
which translates as "good". The
local Turkic Afshars were
brought to the area from
Shiraz at the
beginning of the 19th century...
