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 AllRefer.com - Nadir Shah, Iran History (Iranian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Nadir Shah or Nader Shah[both: nA´dEr shA] Pronunciation Key, 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.
Bukhara was subdued, and the limits of Iran were extended to the greatest that they had been since the days of the Sassanids.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NadirSha.html   (475 words)

  
 The Struggle for Iran - Geography, Government, Economy, The People - The Iran Project
Armenia and Azerbaijan border Iran on the north, Afghanistan and Pakistan on the east, and Iraq and Turkey on the west.
Iran's economy is closely tied to its natural resources since 80 percent of the country's export revenues are derived from oil and gas.
Data on Iran's refugee population from the U.S. Committee for Refugees.
www.iranproject.org /iran/iran.html   (1241 words)

  
 Shah Of Iran - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1969-1977
Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran
Anyone who views Iran merely as a nation of Muslim fanatics should read this riveting exposition of its tortuous 20th-century history.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /shah_of_iran.htm   (150 words)

  
 FToI: Reformation: Up and Down and Around
In the Safavid Persia [as it was still officially called Persia and not yet Iran] very similar to their contemporaries, the Italians through the renaissance, there was a revival of artistic expression and a creative return to the pagan origins of Iranian culture.
Shah Ismail, the first king of the Safavids even saw himself as the Imam of the era and brought back the ancient pre-Islamic ideas of "King, the Shadow of God".
That was the heyday of Aryan supremacy and the word Iran literally means "land of the Aryans." Something of a breech began to appear in Persian and Western consciousness.
www.freethoughts.org /archives/000136.php   (3105 words)

  
 iran shah daughter sister and other iran related information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Daftar-ol-Molouk was the sister of the famed Prime Minister of Iran Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh...
Funeral ceremony for Princess Leila Pahlavi of Iran
An implacable opponent to the mullahs of Iran - Africa and Middle East...
www.nethorde.com /iran/iran-shah-daughter-sister.html   (324 words)

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