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  Qajar dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Agha Mohammad Khan defeated numerous rivals and brought all of Iran under his rule, establishing the Qajar dynasty.
Agha Mohammad established his capital at Tehran, a village near the ruins of the ancient city of Ray (now Shahr-e Rey).
Agha Mohammad was assassinated in 1797 in the; Azerbaijani town of Shusha (in Karabakh) and was succeeded by his nephew, Fath Ali Shah Qajar.
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 Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (Kadjar)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Agha Mohammad Khan was the son of Mohammad Hassan Khan, and grand-son of Fath Ali Khan Qajar.
Agha Mohammad Khan was captured at age seven by a rival of the Qajars (Kadjar), Adil Shah Afshar and tortured and mutilated (castrated) on the orders of that vassal of the Zands.
Agha Mohammad Khan is remembered for his cruelty and his capacity as a warrior most.
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 History of Iran: Qajar Dynasty
Agha Mohammad Khan defeated numerous rivals and brought all of Iran under his rule, establishing the Qajar dynasty.
Agha Mohammad was assassinated in 1797 and was succeeded by his nephew, Fath Ali Shah.
With a coup d'état in February 1921, Reza Khan (ruled as Reza Shah Pahlavi, 1925-41) became the preeminent political personality in Iran; Ahmad Shah was formally deposed by the Majles (national consultative assembly) in October 1925 while he was absent in Europe, and that assembly declared the rule of the Qajar dynasty to be terminated.
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 Informat.io on Qajar Dynasty
The headship of the dynasty is inherited by the eldest male descendent of Mohammad Ali Shah.
The heir presumptive is the Qajar claimant to the throne of Iran.
Qajars Dynasty Turkoman dynasty of the Shahs of Persia
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 Qajar
Mohammad Mirza was chosen as the king despite all of the oppositions from his uncles, most notably, Ali Khan and Mohmmad Ali Mirza.
Mohammad Shah, feeling suspicious about his prime minister because of his successful ways to organize the country and even winning a war (well, Harat was lost to diplomacy not to military power), he was thinking of a way to get rid of him.
Mirza Agha Khan Noori, one of the head conspirators in death of AMir Kabir was elected as the new prime minister.
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 Kareem Khan
Mohammad Hassan Khan Qajar Ghovanlou was son of Fath-Ali Khan, commander and regent of Shah Tahmasp II who was executed after Nader’s rise to power.
Agha Mohammad Khan was the eldest son of Mohammad Hassan Khan Qajar, murdered chief of Qajars and Kareem Khan’s sweared enemy.
When Agha Mohammad Khan got to his hometown, the first thing he did was to gather all of his brothers (there were quite a few of them) and the remainder of his father’s army.
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 Iran & Iranian History - The Qajars :: Iran Visitor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Between the death of Karim Khan in 1779 and the coronation of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar in 1795, five Zand kings held power over a divided land.
Agha Mohammad Khan, leader of the Qajar tribe from what is now Azerbaijan, defeated the last of the Zand kings, Lotf Ali Khan, in 1794 and reclaimed territories that had been lost to Russia, reuniting Iran for the first time since the Safavids.
Agha Mohammad Khan fathered no children due to the castration he suffered at the hands of enemies of his family during his childhood.
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 Brief History of Iran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the meantime, among the Turkomans of northern Iran the brave Qajar tribe was establishing a dynasty and kingdom.
Qajars and Karim Khan were constantly at war until finally Karim Khan subjugated the tribe and took as hostage Agha Mohammad Khan, the son of the tribe's chief.
Karim Khan was a modest and gentle man and ruled with justice and compas sion, though in battle he was a courageous and fierce soldier.
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 Cambridge to hold conference on Qajar Persia
In 1794, Agha Mohammad Khan defeated numerous rivals and brought all of Iran under his rule, establishing the Qajar dynasty.
The Qajars were a Turkic tribe that held ancestral lands in present-day Azerbaijan, which then was part of Iran.
Agha Mohammad’s nephew and successor, Fat’h Ali Shah, ruled from 1797 to 1834.
www.mehrnews.ir /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=178499   (271 words)

  
 Agha Mohammad Khan Biography
This cruel deed was perhaps one of the chief causes of the evil in Agha Mohammad's character and behavior.
Agha Mohammad was quite free in Shiraz and was even permitted to venture out of the city for hunting.
Agha Mohammad, delighted at the news, decided to go to the Caucasus and capture Shisha, the one city which had resisted him the previous year.
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 Genealogy of Qajar (Kadjar) Rulers
Agha Mohammad Khan, however, conquered his rivals by force of will, iron and blood; united the country, and crowned himself king of all of Persia and her vassal countries.
Agha Mohammad Khan could have no offspring, since he was mutilated (castrated) as a child by his rivals while he was a hostage at their seat of power.
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (Kadjar) decreed the line of succession for the Qajar (Kadjar) royal house to be by primogeniture in the male line, with the caveat that the mother of the crown prince must be a Qajar (Kadjar) princess herself.
www.qajarpages.org /qajgenealogy.html   (1050 words)

  
 Qajar Dynasty
The Qajars were a Turkmen tribe that held ancestral lands in present-day Azerbaijan, which then was part of Iran.
Mirza Taghi Khan Amir Nezam, was the young prince Nasser-e-Din's advisor and constable.
With a coup d'état in February 1921, Reza Khan (ruled as Reza Shah Pahlavi, 1925-41) became the preeminent political personality in Iran; Ahmad Shah was formally deposed by the majlis (national consultative assembly) in October 1925 while he was absent in Europe, and that assembly declared the rule of the Qajar dynasty to be terminated.
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 Karim Shah
By 1760 Karim Khan had defeated all his rivals and controlled all of Iran except Khorasan, in the northeast, which was ruled by Shahrokh, the blind grandson of Nader Shah.
In 1789 Lotf Ali Khan (ruled 1789-94) proclaimed himself as the new Zand king and took energetic action to put down a rebellion led by Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar that had begun at Karim Khan's death.
Outnumbered by the superior Qajar forces, Lotf Ali Khan was finally defeated and captured at Kerman in 1794.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/k/ka/karim_shah.html   (422 words)

  
 The Modern Magazine for Persian Celebrations, Cuisine, Culture & Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Karim Khan declared Shiraz the new capital and built the country to recover from the devastation of 40 years of war.
Mohammad Shah’s rule lasted until 1587 when was succeeded by Abbas I. Shah Abbas created state-owned lands, and collected tax to raise money for his setup.
Ezzat al-Nisa Khanum, daughter of the well-to-do merchant Mirza Khan Tajir of Qum and wife of Mirza Muhammad Mahdi, was a major patron and contributor to the building of the Madrasa Mirza Husin in 1687-88.
www.persianmirror.com /culture/history/safavid.cfm   (2234 words)

  
 Islamic Republic of Iran
Oppression and tyranny became prevelant in the course of the Qajar dynasty's rule due to treason of courtiers and the Kings' powerlessness and inattention to the state of affairs.
Reza Khan Mir-Panj, commander of a Kazak battalion, occupied Tehran on 22 Feb. 1920, and five years later crowned himself the King with the support of England.
Mohammad Reza too, fairly followed in the footsteps of his father for 37 years of his reign.
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 IRAN YELLOW PAGES - Iranian infomation at your fingertip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Prophet of Islam, Mohammad (BABUHHP) was born in the city of Mecca during the rule of Anushirvan Sassani, and was chosen as the completion of all prophecy and the last prophet during the reign of Khosrow Parviz (610 A.D.).
Weakness of the Sassanide government, oppressions of the Kings, and at the same time Islam's human-rights oriented ideology and it's message of equality and brotherhood of mankind were the imperative factors which led to the victory of Islam's army over the Iranian military might in the course of numerous battles.
The Prophet Mohammad migrated to Medina from Mecca (622 A.D).
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 persian history - ghajars, pahlavis, revolution
When Agha Mohammad Khan of Qajar dynasty defeated the Russian army with lightning speed, it was considered only natural by the Iranians that they should win the war with such ease.
Meanwhile, an Iranian soldier, Reza Khan, had been showing great gift for military leadership and organization, and had risen from the status of a private to that of an officer while the Iranian army was under the super vision and instruction of imperial Russian officers as military advisers.
As soon as Iran was occupied, Reza Shah was "advised" by the British to abdicate in favor of his son Mohammad Reza who had to adopt policies more appropriate to the circumstances.
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 Histroy of Iran
Reza Khan's rapid ascent from common soldier to King could be compared with the rise of Napoleon in France or Bernadotte in Sweden; however, it was more striking in terms of the social distance covered.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi ascended the throne on September 16, 1941, when he was a few weeks short of his twenty-second birthday (October 26).
Basically, Mohammad Reza Shah's reign displayed the same two trends as were characteristic of his father's period, nationalism and modernization.
www.farhangsara.com /history_pahlavi.htm   (3112 words)

  
 Qajar titles - www.ezboard.com
The Qajars (Kadjars) adopted and adapted many of the appellations and titles current in their time in the Islamic world.
However, today many of the appellations and titles the Qajars (Kadjars) used in their time have come to be uniquely and exclusively associated with them.
Agha Khan means "dear sir," and is thus both a term of endearment and an honorific title.
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 Iran Daily - Arts & Culture - 07/04/05
TEHRAN, July 3--Some 100 historical documents pertaining to the kings of the Safavid (1502-1736) and Qajar (1796-1925) dynasties were donated to the Documents and Press Center of Astan-e Qods Razavi Foundation--the custodian of the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS), the eighth Imam of the infallible household of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Mohammad Ali Etezad-Razavi, who made the donation, said his deep love for the holy shrine inspired him to undertake the move.
Seyyed Abolqasem Alavi is a well-known combatant of the Qajar era who fought against the bloody attack of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar on Kerman.
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 Coins - IRAN COLLECTION
Their progenitor was Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar who was killed by Karim khan Zand.
His elder son, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar killed Zand princes in revenge of his father after the death of Karim Khan and crowned as the first king of the Qajar dynasty.
But in the reign of his grandson, King Naser-eddin Shah Qajar, traditional mintage in major cities of the country were stopped and the first Royal mint house was established in Tehran under his name.
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 Histroy of Iran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mohammad, becoming the new heir (although Fath-Ali Shah had 59 more sons alive, out of 250).
Mohammad Ali Shah could not trust any of his Iranian curtains to do the job form him, so he look for the help from his northern allies, Russians.
In a Parliament whose members were chosen for the purpose, Reza Khan Maxim was declared king as Reza Shah Pahlavi, and that was the end of Qajars, whose last king, Ahmad Shah, was living in Monte Carlo for the past two years, leaving the power to Sardar Sepah.
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 IRAN YELLOW PAGES - Iranian infomation at your fingertip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
With the Russian Revolution and the overthrow of the Czarist regime, the Russian influence diminished, and even for some time vanished altogether, although it soon returned with the coming to power of Stalin: first as a great rival which the British had to contend with, and soon after as their ally.
Gradually Reza Khan gained complete control of the government and the Majlis which finally deposed Ahmad Shah (1925) and a constituent assembly elected Reza Khan as the Shah.
As soon as Iran was occupied, Reza Shah was coerced by the British to abdicate in favor of his son Mohammad Reza who had to adopt policies more appropriate to the circumstances.
www.iranyellowpages.net /en/About_iran/Culture/qajar_today/qajar_today01.shtm   (587 words)

  
 The Modern Magazine for Persian Weddings, Cuisine, Culture & Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Originally a Turkmen tribe, the Qajar kings had ancestral lands in present-day Azerbaijan, which then was part of Persia.
Agha Mohammad established his new capital in Tehran, a village near the ruins of the ancient city of Ray (now Shahr-e Rey).
Mirza Taghi Khan Amir Kabir, the young advisor to the ruler became Prime Minister and was given the title of Amir Kabir, the Great Ruler.
www.persianmirror.com /culture/history/qajar.cfm   (883 words)

  
 Abkhazia.Org - Forum
The Crimean khan, Devlet Girey, urged the Sultan not to permit Russia to retain Azov and the mouth of the Don.
Agha Mohammad Khan was conducting a campaign of his own in Central Asia, and Persian resistance was slight.
In the Caucasus the Russians became worthy heirs of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar.
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Fath-Ali Khan, who was older and more experienced than Nader, felt the danger and started his struggle to escape Nader's trap, but he lost the game to him and was killed soon after.
Mohammad Shah, taken by storm, was incapable of defending his falling empire, so he just opened the doors of the city.
After emptying Mohammad Shah’s treasury from all of the precious stones and money, Nader spoke in public and expressed his support for the reign of Mohammad Shah and ordered the coins with his name to be changed back to Mohammad Shah’s name.
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 Coins of Qajar dynasty
Qajar dynasty is actually one of the most famous dynasties in the history of Iran.
This dynasty was founded by Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar in 1796 and after him, six other kings came to throne.
This period can be called as the transitional period toward modernization in Iran which came into cessation by the foundation of the Pahlavi dynasty by Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925.
irancollection.alborzi.com /Qajarcoin/index.htm   (273 words)

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