20 Facts About Qajar Iran

Qajar Iran, referred to as Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, Sublime State of Persia, officially the Sublime State of Iran and known then as the Guarded Domains of Iran, was an Iranian state ruled by the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic origin, specifically from the Qajar tribe, from 1789 to 1925.

The Qajar family took full control of Iran in 1794, deposing Lotf 'Ali Khan, the last Shah of the Zand dynasty, and re-asserted Iranian sovereignty over large parts of the Caucasus.

In 1796, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar Iran seized Mashhad with ease, putting an end to the Afsharid dynasty.

Qajar Iran was formally crowned as Shah after his punitive campaign against Iran's Georgian subjects.

Qajar Iran was killed on the orders of Shah Nader Shah in 1726.

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Qajar Iran reestablished Persian control over the territories in the entire Caucasus.

Qajar Iran viewed, like the Safavids and Nader Shah before him, the territories no different from the territories in mainland Iran.

The Qajar army suffered a major military defeat in the war, and under the terms of the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813, Iran was forced to cede most of its Caucasian territories comprising modern-day Georgia, Dagestan, and most of Azerbaijan.

Qajar Iran had by these two treaties, in the course of the 19th century, irrevocably lost the territories which had formed part of the concept of Qajar Iran for centuries.

Qajar Iran was not able to prevent Britain and Russia from encroaching into regions of traditional Persian influence.

Qajar Iran hired French and Russian instructors as well as Persians to teach subjects as different as Language, Medicine, Law, Geography, History, Economics, and Engineering, amongst numerous others.

Qajar Iran's convinced the young shah that Amir Kabir wanted to usurp the throne.

Qajar Iran would become a victim of the Great Game between Russia and Britain for influence over central Asia.

Russia and Britain had competing investments in the industrialisation of Qajar Iran including roads and telegraph lines, as a way to profit and extend their influence.

When Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar Iran was assassinated by Mirza Reza Kermani in 1896, the crown passed to his son Mozaffar-e-din.

At that time, large parts of Qajar Iran were under tight Russian influence and control, and since 1910 Russian forces were present inside the country, while many of its cities possessed Russian garrisons.

However, with the advent of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent withdrawal of most of the Russian troops, the Ottomans gained the upper hand in Qajar Iran, occupying significant portions of the country until the end of the war.

Ahmad Shah Qajar Iran was born 21 January 1898 in Tabriz, and succeeded to the throne at age 11.

Qajar Iran military was one of the dynasty's largest conventional sources of legitimacy, albeit was increasingly influenced by foreign powers over the course of the dynasty.

Qajar Iran were a Turkmen tribe who first settled during the Mongol period in the vicinity of Armenia and were among the seven Qezelbas tribes that supported the Safavids.