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HighBeam Encyclopedia - Nadir Shah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | NADIR SHAH [Nadir Shah] or Nader Shah, 1688-1747, shah of Iran (1736-47), sometimes considered the last of the great Asian conquerors. |
 | | He then entered the service of Tahmasp, the son of Shah Sultan Husayn, who was asserting his claims against the Afghans under Mahmud, who had usurped the Persian throne. |
 | | In 1736 Nadir deposed Abbas and himself became shah, thus ending the rule of the Safavid dynasty. |
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