Nadir Shah | Biography, Empire, & Peacock Throne | Britannica
WEBSep 15, 2024 · Nadir Shah, Iranian ruler and conqueror who created an Iranian empire that stretched from the Indus River to the Caucasus, an extent that rivaled the ancient Iranian empires. He reformed Iran’s military forces under the Safavid dynasty but later deposed Tahmasp II and his son Abbas III and became shah.
Nader Shah - Wikipedia
WEBNader Shah Afshar[a] (Persian: نادر شاه افشار; 6 August 1698 [5] – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history, ruling as shah of Iran (Persia) from 1736 to 1747, when he was assassinated during a …
Peacock Throne - Wikipedia
WEBThe Persian king Nader Shah seated upon the Peacock Throne with members of the court, after his victory at the Battle of Karnal. Nader Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire culminated in the Battle of Karnal, on 13 February 1739, and …
Campaigns of Nader Shah - Wikipedia
WEBThe campaigns of Nader Shah (Persian: لشکرکشیهای نادرشاه), or the Naderian Wars (Persian: جنگهای نادری), were a series of conflicts fought in the early to mid-eighteenth century throughout Central Eurasia primarily by the Iranian conqueror Nader Shah.
NĀDER SHAH – Encyclopaedia Iranica
WEBAug 15, 2006 · Two months before the assassination, Nāder’s nephew ʿAli-qoli, son of his brother Ebrāhim (d. 1738), had risen in revolt, and in July he followed his uncle on the throne as ʿĀdel Shah (r. 1747-48).
Nader Shah - New World Encyclopedia
WEBIn response, Nader Shah agreed to withdraw, but Mohammad Shah paid the consequence in handing over the keys of his royal treasury, and losing even the Peacock Throne to the Persian emperor. The Peacock Throne thereafter …
Nādir Shāh summary | Britannica
WEBNādir Shāh , (born Oct. 22, 1688 , Kobhan, Ṣafavid Iran —died June 1747 , near Fatḥābād), Iranian conqueror and ruler. Originally a bandit of the Turkish Afshar tribes, he helped restore Ṭahmāsp II of the Ṣafavid dynasty to Iran’s throne, defeating the Ghilzay Afghan usurper Maḥmūd.
NADIR SHAH'S PECULIAR CENTRAL ASIAN LEGACY: EMPIRE, …
WEBOver the course of the 18th–early 20th centuries, a curious narrative emerged in Central Asia wherein the Turko-Persian monarch Nadir Shah Afshar was converted from Shiʿism to Sunnism by a group of Islamic scholars outside of Bukhara.
Nadir Shah - Encyclopedia.com
WEBJun 8, 2018 · The greatest prize that Nadir carried back to India at the end of his murderous rampage was the famed Peacock Throne. The throne, which took seven years to complete, was lavishly encrusted with jewels.
The Strange Fate of India's Peacock Throne - ThoughtCo
WEBMar 4, 2019 · Shah Jahan, his son Aurangzeb, and later Mughal rulers of India sat on the glorious seat until 1739, when Nader Shah of Persia sacked Delhi and stole the Peacock Throne.
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