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Parent family | Afshar tribe |
Country | Afsharid Iran |
Place of origin | Greater Khorasan, Iran |
Founded | 1736 |
Founder | Nader Shah |
Final ruler | Shahrokh Shah |
Final head | Nader Mirza Afshar |
Titles | Shah of Iran |
Traditions | Shia Islam (Twelver) |
Deposition | 1796 |
The Afsharid dynasty (Persian: افشاریان) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747) of the Qirqlu clan of the Turkoman Afshar tribe, ruling over the Afsharid Empire.
List of Afsharid monarchs
See also: List of kings of PersiaNo. | Shah | Portrait | Reigned from | Reigned until | Time in office | Seal | Coinage | |
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1 | Nader Shah | 8 March 1736 | 20 June 1747 | 11 years, 104 days | ||||
2 | Adel Shah | 6 July 1747 | 1 October 1748 | 1 year, 87 days | — | |||
3 | Shahrokh Shah | — | 1 October 1748 | 14 January 1750 | 1 year, 105 days | — | ||
4 | Ebrahim Afshar | — | 8 December 1748 | June-July 1749 | 205 days | — | ||
5 | Shahrokh Shah | — | 20 March 1750 | 1796 | 45 years, 287 days | — |
Family tree
Imam Qoli (d. 1704) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ebrahim Khan (d. 1738) | Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adel Shah (r. 1747–1748) | Ebrahim Afshar (r. 1748–1749) | Reza Qoli Mirza (b. 1719 – d.1747) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shahrokh Shah (r. 1748–1750) (r. 1750–1796) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nader Mirza (d. 1803) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
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— Royal house —Afsharid dynastyFounding year: 1736Deposition: 1796 | ||
Preceded bySafavid Empire | Ruling house of Iran 1736–1796 |
Succeeded byHouse of Zand |
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