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|native_name = {{lang|fa|دولت علیّه ایران}}<br/>{{transl|fa|''Dolate Eliyye Iran''}}
|conventional_long_name = Sublime State of Persia
|common_name = Qajar Empire
|status = Empire
|year_start = 1789
|year_end = 1925
|date_start =
|date_end =
|event_start = Qajar dynasty begins
|event_end = Pahlavi dynasty begins
|event1 = [[Treaty of Gulistan]]
|date_event1 = 24 October 1813
|event2 = [[Treaty of Turkmenchay]]
|date_event2 = 10 February 1828
|event3 = [[Treaty of Paris (1857)|Treaty of Paris]]
|date_event3 = 4 March 1857
|event4 = [[Treaty of Akhal]]
|date_event4 = 21 September 1881
|event5 = [[Persian Constitutional Revolution]]
|date_event5 = 5 August 1906
|p1 = Zand dynasty
|flag_p1 = Zand Dynasty flag.svg
|border_p1 = no
|p2 = Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
|flag_p2 = Flag_of_Kingdom_of_Kartli-Kakheti.svg
|p3 = Afsharid dynasty
|flag_p3 = Afsharid Imperial Standard (3 Stripes).svg
|border_p3 = no
|s1 = Pahlavi dynasty
|flag_s1 = Flag of Persia (1907-1933).svg
|s2 = Russian Empire
|flag_s2 = Flag of Russia (1696-1917).svg
|image_flag = Tricolour_Flag_of_Iran_(1886).svg
|flag = Flag of Iran
|flag_type = Flag (post-1886)
|image_coat = Imperial Emblem of the Qajar Dynasty (Lion and Sun).svg
|image_map = Map Iran 1900-en.png
|image_map_caption = Map of Iran under the Qajar dynasty in the 19th century.
|national_anthem = ''[[First Iranian national anthem|Salâm-e Shâh]]''<br/>''(Royal salute)''{{center|[[File:Salam-e shah 1906.ogg]]}}
|capital = [[Tehran]]
|religion=[[Shia Islam]]<br/>minority religions: [[Sunni Islam]], [[Sufism]], [[Iranian Jews|Judaism]], [[Zoroastrianism]], [[Christianity in Iran|Christianity]], [[Bahá'í Faith]], [[Mandaeism]]
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* [[Persian language|Persian]] <small>(court literature/language, administrative, cultural, official)</small>,<ref>Homa Katouzian, ''State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis'', published by I. B. Tauris, 2006. pg 327: "In post-Islamic times, the mother-tongue of Iran's rulers was often Turkic, but Persian was almost invariably the cultural and administrative language."</ref><ref>Homa Katouzian, ''Iranian history and politics'', published by Routledge, 2003. pg 128: "Indeed, since the formation of the Ghaznavids state in the tenth century until the fall of Qajars at the beginning of the twentieth century, most parts of the Iranian cultural regions were ruled by Turkic-speaking dynasties most of the time. At the same time, the official language was Persian, the court literature was in Persian, and most of the chancellors, ministers, and mandarins were Persian speakers of the highest learning and ability."</ref>
* [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]] <small>(court language and mother tongue)</small><ref>"Ardabil Becomes a Province: Center-Periphery Relations in Iran", H. E. Chehabi, ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'', Vol. 29, No. 2 (May, 1997), 235; "Azeri Turkish was widely spoken at the two courts in addition to Persian, and Mozaffareddin Shah (r. 1896-1907) spoke Persian with an Azeri Turkish accent."</ref><ref name="Azeri Turkish Literature">{{cite news|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/azerbaijan-x|title=AZERBAIJAN x. Azeri Turkish Literature |publisher=[[Encyclopaedia Iranica]] |date= May 24, 2012 |accessdate=20 October 2013}}; "In the 19th century under the Qajars, when Turkish was used at court once again, literary activity was intensified."</ref>}}
|government_type = {{plainlist|
* [[Absolute monarchy]] <small>(1789–1906)</small>
* [[Constitutional monarchy]] <small>(1906–1925)</small>}}
|title_leader = [[Shahanshah]]
|leader1 = [[Mohammad Khan Qajar]] <small>(first)</small>
|year_leader1 = 1789–1797
|leader2 = [[Ahmad Shah Qajar]] <small>(last)</small>
|year_leader2 = 1909–1925
|deputy1 = [[Mirza Nasrullah Khan]] <small>(first)</small>
|deputy2 = [[Reza Shah|Reza Pahlavi]] <small>(last)</small>
|year_deputy1 = 1906
|year_deputy2 = 1923–1925
|title_deputy = [[List of Prime Ministers of Iran|Prime Minister]]
|currency =[[Iranian toman|toman]] <small>(1789–1825)</small><br>[[Iranian qiran|qiran]] <small>(1825–1925)</small> <ref>علی‌اصغر شمیم، ''ایران در دوره سلطنت قاجار''، ته‍ران‌: انتشارات علمی، ۱۳۷۱، ص ۲۸۷</ref>
|footnotes =
}}
{{History of Iran}}
{{History of Iran}}


The '''Qajar dynasty''' ({{Audio|Qajar.ogg|listen}}; {{lang-fa|سلسله قاجار}} ''{{transl|fa|Selsele-ye Qājār}}'';{{efn|Also Romanised as ''Ghajar'', ''Kadjar'', ''Qachar'' etc.}}) was an [[Iran]]ian<ref name="Abbas">Abbas Amanat, ''The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896'', I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3</ref> royal dynasty and empire of [[Turkic people|Turkic]] origin,<ref name="ghani1">Cyrus Ghani. ''Iran and the Rise of the Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power'', I. B. Tauris, 2000, {{ISBN|1-86064-629-8}}, p. 1</ref><ref name="William Bayne Fisher 1993, p. 344">William Bayne Fisher. ''Cambridge History of Iran'', Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 344, {{ISBN|0-521-20094-6}}</ref><ref name="online edition">Dr [[Parviz Kambin]], ''A History of the Iranian Plateau: Rise and Fall of an Empire'', Universe, 2011, p.36, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tZkSLozhXxAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=en#v=onepage&q online edition].</ref><ref>Jamie Stokes and Anthony Gorman, ''Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East'', 2010, p.707, [https://books.google.com/books?id=stl97FdyRswC&printsec=frontcover&hl=en Online Edition]: "The Safavid and Qajar dynasties, rulers in Iran from 1501 to 1722 and from 1795 to 1925 respectively, were Turkic in origin."</ref> specifically from the [[Qajars (tribe)|Qajar tribe]], from 1789 to 1925.<ref name="autogenerated1">Abbas Amanat, ''The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896'', I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3; "In the 126 years between the fall of the Safavid state in 1722 and the accession of Nasir al-Din Shah, the Qajars evolved from a shepherd-warrior tribe with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty."</ref><ref>Choueiri, Youssef M., ''A companion to the history of the Middle East'', (Blackwell Ltd., 2005), 231,516.</ref> The Qajar family took full control of Iran in 1794, deposing [[Lotf 'Ali Khan]], the last [[Shah]] of the [[Zand dynasty]], and re-asserted Iranian sovereignty over large parts of the [[Caucasus]]. In 1796, [[Mohammad Khan Qajar]] seized [[Mashhad]] with ease,<ref>{{cite book |title=Muslim World|last1=H. Scheel|last2=Jaschke|first2=Gerhard|last3=H. Braun|last4= Spuler|first4=Bertold|last5=T Koszinowski|last6=Bagley|first6=Frank|year=1981|publisher=Brill Archive|isbn=978-90-04-06196-5 |pages=65, 370|accessdate=28 September 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNgUAAAAIAAJ}}</ref> putting an end to the [[Afsharid dynasty]], and Mohammad Khan was formally crowned as Shah after his [[Battle of Krtsanisi|punitive campaign against Iran's Georgian subjects]].<ref name="books.google.nl">[[Michael Axworthy]]. [https://books.google.nl/books?id=k9HyyYrPIGgC&pg=PT192&dq=agha+mohammad+khan+conquer+georgia&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=SghYVajbGbKQ7AbrloPADQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=agha%20mohammad%20khan%20conquer%20georgia&f=false ''Iran: Empire of the Mind: A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day''], Penguin UK, 6 Nov. 2008. {{ISBN|0141903414}}</ref> In the Caucasus, the Qajar dynasty permanently lost many of Iran's integral areas{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=330}} to the [[Imperial Russia|Russians]] over the course of the 19th century, comprising modern-day [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Dagestan]], [[Azerbaijan]] and [[Armenia]].<ref name="Timothy C. Dowling pp 729">Timothy C. Dowling. [https://books.google.nl/books?id=KTq2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA728&dq=russo+persian+war+1804-1813&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=QnOXVJXpCcz7UPevhPAK&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=russo%20persian%20war%201804-1813&f=false ''Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond''], pp 728-730 ABC-CLIO, 2 dec. 2014 {{ISBN|1598849484}}</ref>
The '''Qajar dynasty''' ({{Audio|Qajar.ogg|listen}}; {{lang-fa|سلسله قاجار}} ''{{transl|fa|Selsele-ye Qājār}}'';{{efn|Also Romanised as ''Ghajar'', ''Kadjar'', ''Qachar'' etc.}}) was an [[Iran]]ian<ref name="Abbas">Abbas Amanat, ''The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896'', I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3</ref> royal dynasty and empire of [[Turkic people|Turkic]] origin,<ref name="ghani1">Cyrus Ghani. ''Iran and the Rise of the Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power'', I. B. Tauris, 2000, {{ISBN|1-86064-629-8}}, p. 1</ref><ref name="William Bayne Fisher 1993, p. 344">William Bayne Fisher. ''Cambridge History of Iran'', Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 344, {{ISBN|0-521-20094-6}}</ref><ref name="online edition">Dr [[Parviz Kambin]], ''A History of the Iranian Plateau: Rise and Fall of an Empire'', Universe, 2011, p.36, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tZkSLozhXxAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=en#v=onepage&q online edition].</ref><ref>Jamie Stokes and Anthony Gorman, ''Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East'', 2010, p.707, [https://books.google.com/books?id=stl97FdyRswC&printsec=frontcover&hl=en Online Edition]: "The Safavid and Qajar dynasties, rulers in Iran from 1501 to 1722 and from 1795 to 1925 respectively, were Turkic in origin."</ref> specifically from the [[Qajars (tribe)|Qajar tribe]], from 1789 to 1925.<ref name="autogenerated1">Abbas Amanat, ''The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896'', I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3; "In the 126 years between the fall of the Safavid state in 1722 and the accession of Nasir al-Din Shah, the Qajars evolved from a shepherd-warrior tribe with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty."</ref><ref>Choueiri, Youssef M., ''A companion to the history of the Middle East'', (Blackwell Ltd., 2005), 231,516.</ref> The Qajar family took full control of [[Qajar Iran|Iran]] in 1794, deposing [[Lotf 'Ali Khan]], the last [[Shah]] of the [[Zand dynasty]], and re-asserted Iranian sovereignty over large parts of the [[Caucasus]]. In 1796, [[Mohammad Khan Qajar]] seized [[Mashhad]] with ease,<ref>{{cite book |title=Muslim World|last1=H. Scheel|last2=Jaschke|first2=Gerhard|last3=H. Braun|last4= Spuler|first4=Bertold|last5=T Koszinowski|last6=Bagley|first6=Frank|year=1981|publisher=Brill Archive|isbn=978-90-04-06196-5 |pages=65, 370|accessdate=28 September 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNgUAAAAIAAJ}}</ref> putting an end to the [[Afsharid dynasty]], and Mohammad Khan was formally crowned as Shah after his [[Battle of Krtsanisi|punitive campaign against Iran's Georgian subjects]].<ref name="books.google.nl">[[Michael Axworthy]]. [https://books.google.nl/books?id=k9HyyYrPIGgC&pg=PT192&dq=agha+mohammad+khan+conquer+georgia&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=SghYVajbGbKQ7AbrloPADQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=agha%20mohammad%20khan%20conquer%20georgia&f=false ''Iran: Empire of the Mind: A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day''], Penguin UK, 6 Nov. 2008. {{ISBN|0141903414}}</ref> In the Caucasus, the Qajar dynasty permanently lost many of Iran's integral areas{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=330}} to the [[Imperial Russia|Russians]] over the course of the 19th century, comprising modern-day [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Dagestan]], [[Azerbaijan]] and [[Armenia]].<ref name="Timothy C. Dowling pp 729">Timothy C. Dowling. [https://books.google.nl/books?id=KTq2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA728&dq=russo+persian+war+1804-1813&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=QnOXVJXpCcz7UPevhPAK&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=russo%20persian%20war%201804-1813&f=false ''Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond''], pp 728-730 ABC-CLIO, 2 dec. 2014 {{ISBN|1598849484}}</ref>

== Names ==
The '''Qajar Empire''',{{efn|{{lang-fa|شاهنشاهی قاجار}} ''{{transl|fa|Šāhanšāhi-ye Qājār}}''.}} also referred to as '''Qajar [[Name of Iran|Iran]]''', officially the '''Sublime State of Persia''' ({{lang-fa|دولت علیّه ایران}} ''{{transl|fa|Dowlat-e Aliyye Iran}}''), also known then as the '''Guarded Domains of Persia''' ({{lang-fa|ممالک محروسه ایران}} ''{{transl|fa|Mamâlek-e mahruse-ye Irân}}''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNuRDwAAQBAJ|title=Persian Historiography: A History of Persian Literature|editor=[[Charles P. Melville|Charles Melville]]|pp=358, 361}}</ref>).

==History==

===Origins===
The [[Qajars (tribe)|Qajar]] rulers were members of the Karagöz or "Black-Eye" sect of the Qajars, who themselves were members of the [[Qajars (tribe)]] or "Black Hats" lineage of the [[Oghuz Turks]].<ref name="kadjarfamily.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.kadjarfamily.org/articles_11.cfm|title=Genealogy and History of Qajar (Kadjar) Rulers and Heads of the Imperial Kadjar House|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="ghani1" /><ref name="William Bayne Fisher 1993, p. 344" /><ref name="online edition" /> Qajars first settled during the Mongol period in the vicinity of [[Armenia]] and were among the seven [[Qizilbash]] tribes that supported the [[Safavid dynasty|Safavids]].<ref name="iranicaqajar">''[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/iran-ii2-islamic-period-page-5 IRAN ii. IRANIAN HISTORY (2) Islamic period]'', Ehsan Yarshater, '''Encyclopædia Iranica''', (March 29, 2012).[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/iran-ii2-islamic-period-page-5] <blockquote>The Qajar were a Turkmen tribe who first settled during the Mongol period in the vicinity of Armenia and were among the seven Qezelbāš tribes that supported the Safavids. </blockquote></ref> The Safavids "left [[Caucasian Albania|Arran]] (present-day [[Azerbaijan|Republic of Azerbaijan]]) to local Turkic khans",<ref name="rohborn">K. M. Röhrborn, Provinzen und Zentralgewalt Persiens im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1966, p. 4</ref> and, "in 1554 [[Ganja, Azerbaijan|Ganja]] was governed by [[Shahverdi Sultan|Shahverdi Soltan Ziyadoglu Qajar]], whose family came to govern [[Karabakh]] in southern [[Arran (Caucasus)|Arran]]".<ref name="iranicaganja">[http://www.iranica.com/articles/v10f3/v10f372.html Encyclopedia Iranica. Ganja. Online Edition] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311021034/http://www.iranica.com/articles/v10f3/v10f372.html |date=11 March 2007 }}</ref>

Qajars filled a number of diplomatic missions and governorships in the 16–17th centuries for the Safavids. The Qajars were resettled by [[Shah Abbas I]] throughout Iran. The great number of them also settled in Astarabad (present-day [[Gorgan]], [[Iran]]) near the south-eastern corner of the [[Caspian Sea]],<ref name="ghani1"/> and it would be this branch of Qajars that would rise to power. The immediate ancestor of the Qajar dynasty, Shah Qoli Khan of the Quvanlu of Ganja (also spelled Ghovanloo or Ghovanlou), married into the Quvanlu Qajars of Astarabad. His son, [[Fath Ali Khan]] (born c. 1685–1693) was a renowned military commander during the rule of the Safavid shahs [[Sultan Husayn]] and [[Tahmasp II]]. He was killed on the orders of Shah [[Nader Shah]] in 1726. Fath Ali Khan's son [[Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar]] (1722–1758) was the father of [[Mohammad Khan Qajar]] and Hossein Qoli Khan (Jahansouz Shah), father of "Baba Khan," the future [[Fath-Ali Shah Qajar]]. Mohammad Hasan Khan was killed on the orders of [[Karim Khan]] of the [[Zand dynasty]].

Within 126 years between the demise of the Safavid state and the rise of [[Naser al-Din Shah Qajar]], the Qajars had evolved from a shepherd-warrior tribe with strongholds in northern Persia into a Persian dynasty with all the trappings of a Perso-Islamic monarchy.<ref name="Abbas"/>

===Rise to power===
{{main|Mohammad Khan Qajar}}
"Like virtually every dynasty that ruled Persia since the 11th century, the Qajars came to power with the backing of [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] tribal forces, while using educated Persians in their bureaucracy".<ref name="keddie">{{cite journal |first=Nikki R. |last=Keddie |title=The Iranian Power Structure and Social Change 1800–1969: An Overview |journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies |volume=2 |issue=1 |year=1971 |pages=3–20 [p. 4] |doi=10.1017/S0020743800000842 }}</ref> In 1779 following the death of [[Karim Khan]] of the [[Zand dynasty]], [[Mohammad Khan Qajar]], the leader of the Qajars, set out to reunify [[Iran]]. Mohammad Khan was known as one of the cruelest kings, even by the standards of 18th-century Iran.<ref name="ghani1"/> In his quest for power, he razed cities, massacred entire populations, and blinded some 20,000 men in the city of [[Kerman]] because the local populace had chosen to defend the city against his [[siege]].<ref name="ghani1"/>

The Qajar armies at that time were mostly composed of Turkomans and [[Georgians|Georgian]] slaves.<ref>{{cite book |first=Ira Marvin |last=Lapidus |title=A History of Islamic Societies |location= |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-521-77933-3 |page=469 }}</ref> By 1794, Mohammad Khan had eliminated all his rivals, including [[Lotf Ali Khan]], the last of the Zand dynasty. He reestablished Persian control over the territories in the entire [[Caucasus]]. Agha Mohammad established his capital at [[Tehran]], a village near the ruins of the ancient city of [[Rey, Iran|Rayy]]. In 1796, he was formally crowned as [[shah]]. In 1797, Mohammad Khan Qajar was assassinated in [[Shusha]], the capital of [[Karabakh Khanate]], and was succeeded by his nephew, [[Fath-Ali Shah Qajar]].

===Reconquest of Georgia and the rest of the Caucasus===
{{main|Battle of Krtsanisi}}
In 1744, [[Nader Shah]] had granted the kingship of [[Kingdom of Kartli|Kartli]] and [[Kingdom of Kakheti|Kakheti]] to [[Teimuraz II of Kakheti|Teimuraz II]] and his son [[Heraclius II of Georgia|Erekle II]] (Heraclius II) respectively, as a reward for their loyalty.{{sfn|Suny|1994|page=55}} When Nader Shah died in 1747, they capitalized on the chaos that had erupted in mainland Iran, and declared ''de facto'' independence. After Teimuraz II died in 1762, Erekle II assumed control over Kartli, and united the two kingdoms in a personal union as the [[Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti]], becoming the first Georgian ruler to preside over a politically unified eastern Georgia in three centuries.{{sfn|Hitchins|1998|pages=541–542}} At about the same time, [[Karim Khan Zand]] had ascended the Iranian throne; Erekle II quickly tendered his ''de jure'' submission to the new Iranian ruler, however, ''de facto'', he remained autonomous.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=328}}{{sfn|Perry|1991|page=96}} In 1783, Erekle II placed his kingdom under the [[Protectorate|protection]] of the Russian Empire in the [[Treaty of Georgievsk]]. In the last few decades of the 18th century, Georgia had become a more important element in [[Iran-Russia relations|Russo-Iranian relations]] than some provinces in northern mainland Persia, such as [[Mazandaran Province|Mazandaran]] or even [[Gilan Province|Gilan]].{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=327}} Unlike [[Peter the Great]], [[Catherine the Great]], the then-ruling monarch of Russia, viewed Georgia as a pivot for her Caucasian policy, as Russia's new aspirations were to use it as a base of operations against both Iran and the Ottoman Empire,{{sfn|Mikaberidze|2011|p=327}} both immediate bordering geopolitical rivals of Russia. On top of that, having another port on the Georgian coast of the [[Black Sea]] would be ideal.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=327}} A limited Russian contingent of two infantry battalions with four artillery pieces arrived in [[Tbilisi]] in 1784,{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=328}} but was withdrawn, despite the frantic protests of the Georgians, in 1787 as a new [[Russo-Turkish War (1768–74)|war]] against Ottoman Turkey had started on a different front.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=328}}

[[File:Capture of Tiflis by Agha Muhammad Shah. A Qajar-era miniature. 03.png|thumb|left|The capture of [[Tbilisi]] by Agha Muhammad Khan. A Qajar-era Persian miniature from the [[British Library]].]]

The consequences of these events came a few years later, when a strong new Iranian dynasty under the Qajars emerged victorious in the protracted power struggle in [[Persia]]. Their head, [[Agha Mohammad Khan]], as his first objective,{{sfn|Mikaberidze|2011|p=409}} resolved to bring the [[Caucasus]] again fully under the Persian orbit. For Agha Mohammah Khan, the resubjugation and reintegration of Georgia into the Iranian Empire was part of the same process that had brought [[Shiraz]], [[Isfahan]], and [[Tabriz]] under his rule.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=328}} He viewed, like the Safavids and Nader Shah before him, the territories no different than the territories in mainland Iran. Georgia was a province of Iran the same way [[Khorasan province|Khorasan]] was.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=328}} As the ''[[Cambridge History of Iran]]'' states, its permanent secession was inconceivable and had to be resisted in the same way as one would resist an attempt at the separation of [[Fars province|Fars]] or Gilan.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=328}} It was therefore natural for Agha Mohammad Khan to perform whatever necessary means in the Caucasus in order to subdue and reincorporate the recently lost regions following Nader Shah's death and the demise of the Zands, including putting down what in Iranian eyes was seen as treason on the part of the ''[[Vali (governor)|vali]]'' of Georgia.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=328}}

Finding an interval of peace amid their own quarrels and with northern, western, and central Persia secure, the Persians demanded Erekle II to renounce the treaty with Russia and to reaccept Persian suzerainty,{{sfn|Mikaberidze|2011|p=409}} in return for peace and the security of his kingdom. The Ottomans, Iran's neighboring rival, recognized the latter's rights over Kartli and Kakheti for the first time in four centuries.<ref name="Donald Rayfield p 255">Donald Rayfield. [https://books.google.nl/books?id=PxQpmg_JIpwC&pg=PA255&dq=agha+mohammad+khan+conquer+georgia&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=uxRYVe67HaWQ7AbL_YOADw&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=agha%20mohammad%20khan%20conquer%20georgia&f=false ''Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia''] Reaktion Books, 15 feb. 2013 {{ISBN|1780230702}} p 255</ref> Erekle appealed then to his theoretical protector, Empress Catherine II of Russia, asking for at least 3,000 Russian troops,<ref name="Donald Rayfield p 255"/> but he was ignored, leaving Georgia to fend off the Persian threat alone.<ref name="Lang">[[David Marshall Lang|Lang, David Marshall]] (1962), ''A Modern History of Georgia'', p. 38. [[London]]: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.</ref> Nevertheless, Erekle II still rejected Agha Mohammad Khan's [[ultimatum]].<ref name="Suny">[[Ronald Grigor Suny|Suny, Ronald Grigor]] (1994), ''The Making of the Georgian Nation'', p. 59. [[Indiana University Press]], {{ISBN|0-253-20915-3}}</ref>

In August 1795, Agha Mohammad Khan crossed the [[Aras River]], and after a turn of events by which he gathered more support from his subordinate khans of [[Erivan Khanate|Erivan]] and [[Ganja Khanate|Ganja]], and having re-secured the territories up to including parts of [[Dagestan]] in the north and up to the western-most border of modern-day [[Armenia]] in the west, he sent Erekle the last ultimatum, which he also declined, but, sent couriers to St.Petersburg. [[Ivan Gudovich|Gudovich]], who sat in [[Georgievsk]] at the time, instructed Erekle to avoid "expense and fuss",<ref name="Donald Rayfield p 255"/> while Erekle, together with [[Solomon II of Imereti|Solomon II]] and some Imeretians headed southwards of Tbilisi to fend off the Iranians.<ref name="Donald Rayfield p 255"/>

With half of the troops Agha Mohammad Khan crossed the Aras river with, he now marched directly upon Tbilisi, where it commenced into a huge battle between the Iranian and Georgian armies. Erekle had managed to mobilize some 5,000 troops, including some 2,000 from neighboring [[Kingdom of Imereti|Imereti]] under its King Solomon II. The Georgians, hopelessly outnumbered, were eventually defeated despite stiff resistance. In a few hours, the Iranian king Agha Mohammad Khan was in full control of the Georgian capital. The Persian army marched back laden with spoil and carrying off many thousands of captives.<ref name="Lang"/><ref>P.Sykes, ''A history of Persia'', 3rd edition, Barnes and Noble 1969, Vol. 2, p. 293</ref><ref>[[John Malcolm|Malcolm, Sir John]] (1829), [https://books.google.com/books/pdf/The_History_of_Persia.pdf?id=4zA-5-gEcD0C&output=pdf&sig=MbnqGAWC2-QDo5sjvjn1uioiAa8 ''The History of Persia from the Most Early Period to the Present Time''], pp. 189-191. [[London]]: [[John Murray (publisher)|John Murray]].</ref>

By this, after the conquest of Tbilisi and being in effective control of eastern [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]],<ref name="books.google.nl"/><ref name="Fisher 1991 128–129">{{cite book |quote="(...) Agha Muhammad Khan remained nine days in the vicinity of Tiflis. His victory proclaimed the restoration of Iranian military power in the region formerly under Safavid domination."|title=The Cambridge History of Iran |first=William Bayne |last=Fisher |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=7 |year=1991 |pages=128–129 }}</ref> Agha Mohammad was formally crowned [[Shah]] in 1796 in the [[Mughan plain]].<ref name="books.google.nl"/> As the ''[[Cambridge History of Iran]]'' notes; "Russia's client, Georgia, had been punished, and Russia's prestige, damaged." Erekle II returned to Tbilisi to rebuild the city, but the destruction of his capital was a death blow to his hopes and projects. Upon learning of the fall of Tbilisi General Gudovich put the blame on the [[Georgians]] themselves.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=329}} To restore Russian prestige, Catherine II [[Persian Expedition of 1796|declared war on Persia]], upon the proposal of Gudovich,{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=329}} and sent an army under [[Valerian Zubov]] to the Qajar possessions on April of that year, but the new [[Tsar of Russia|Tsar]] [[Paul I of Russia|Paul I]], who succeeded Catherine in November, shortly recalled it.

Agha Mohammad Shah was later assassinated while preparing a second expedition against Georgia in 1797 in [[Shusha]].{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=329}} Reassessment of Iranian hegemony over Georgia did not last long; in 1799 the Russians marched into Tbilisi, two years after Agha Mohammad Khan's death.<ref>Alekseĭ I. Miller. [https://books.google.nl/books?id=_8niIYSTqToC&pg=PA204&dq=agha+mohammad+khan+conquer+georgia&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=bhxYVcu9BIS37AaTqIGwCQ&ved=0CGwQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=agha%20mohammad%20khan%20conquer%20georgia&f=false ''Imperial Rule''] Central European University Press, 2004 {{ISBN|9639241989}} p 204</ref> The next two years were a time of muddle and confusion, and the weakened and devastated Georgian kingdom, with its capital half in ruins, was easily [[Georgia within the Russian Empire|absorbed by Russia]] in 1801.<ref name="Lang"/><ref name="Suny"/> As Iran could not permit or allow the cession of [[Transcaucasia]] and [[Dagestan]], which had formed part of the concept of Iran for centuries,{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=330}} it would also directly lead up to the wars of even several years later, namely the [[Russo-Persian War (1804-1813)]] and [[Russo-Persian War (1826-1828)]], which would eventually prove for the irrevocable forced cession of aforementioned regions to Imperial Russia per the treaties of [[Treaty of Gulistan|Gulistan]] (1813) and [[Treaty of Turkmenchay|Turkmenchay]] (1828), as the ancient ties could only be severed by a superior force from outside.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=330}} It was therefore also inevitable that Agha Mohammad Khan's successor, [[Fath Ali Shah]] (under whom Iran would lead the two above-mentioned wars) would follow the same policy of restoring Iranian central authority north of the [[Aras river|Aras]] and [[Kura (Caspian Sea)|Kura]] rivers.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=330}}

===Wars with Russia and irrevocable loss of territories===
{{main|Russo-Persian War (1804-1813)|Russo-Persian War (1826-1828)|Treaty of Gulistan|Treaty of Turkmenchay}}
[[File:Gulistan-Treaty.jpg|thumb|250px|Map showing Irans's northwestern borders in the 19th century, comprising Eastern [[Georgia (Country)|Georgia]], [[Dagestan]], [[Armenia]], and [[Azerbaijan]], before being forced to cede the territories to [[Imperial Russia]] per the [[Russo-Persian Wars|two Russo-Persian Wars of the 19th century]]]]

On 12 September 1801, four years after Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar's death, the [[Russian Empire|Russians]] capitalized on the moment, and annexed [[Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti|Kartli-Kakheti]] (eastern Georgia).<ref>Gvosdev (2000), p. 86</ref><ref>[[David Marshall Lang|Lang]] (1957), p. 249</ref> In 1804, the Russians [[Battle of Ganja (1804)|invaded and sacked the Iranian town of Ganja]], massacring and expelling thousands of its inhabitants,{{sfn|Dowling|2014|page=728}} thereby beginning the [[Russo-Persian War (1804–13)|Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Tucker|editor1-first=Spencer C.|title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East|date=2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=1035|isbn=978-1851096725|quote=January 1804. (...) Russo-Persian War. Russian invasion of Persia. (...) In January 1804 Russian forces under General Paul Tsitsianov (Sisianoff) invade Persia and storm the citadel of Ganjeh, beginning the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813).}}</ref> Under [[Fath Ali Shah]] (r. 1797-1834), the Qajars set out to fight against the invading Russian Empire, who were keen to take the Iranian territories in the region.<ref>{{cite book |quote=''Even when rulers on the plateau lacked the means to effect suzerainty beyond the Aras, the neighboring Khanates were still regarded as '''Iranian dependencies'''.'' Naturally, it was those Khanates located closes to the province of Azarbaijan which most frequently experienced attempts to re-impose Iranian '''suzerainty''': the Khanates of Erivan, Nakhchivan and Qarabagh across the Aras, and the cis-Aras Khanate of Talish, with its administrative headquarters located at Lankaran and therefore very vulnerable to pressure, either from the direction of Tabriz or Rasht. Beyond the Khanate of Qarabagh, '''the Khan of Ganja''' and the Vali of Gurjistan (ruler of the Kartli-Kakheti kingdom of south-east Georgia), although less accessible for purposes of coercion, '''were also regarded as the Shah's vassals''', '''as were the Khans of [[Shakki]] and [[Shirvan]], north of the Kura river'''. The contacts between Iran and the Khanates of Baku and Qubba, however, were more tenuous and consisted mainly of maritime commercial links with Anzali and Rasht. The effectiveness of these somewhat haphazard assertions of suzerainty depended on the ability of a particular Shah to make his will felt, and the determination of the local khans to evade obligations they regarded as onerous. |title=The Cambridge History of Iran |first=William Bayne |last=Fisher |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1991 |pages=145–146 }}</ref> This period marked the first major economic and military encroachments on Iranian interests during the [[Colonialism|colonial]] era. The Qajar army suffered a major military defeat in the war, and under the terms of the [[Treaty of Gulistan]] in 1813, Iran was forced to cede most of its Caucasian territories comprising modern day [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Dagestan]], and most of [[Azerbaijan]].<ref name="Timothy C. Dowling pp 729"/>

About a decade later, in violation of the Gulistan Treaty, the Russians invaded Iran's [[Erivan Khanate]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Cronin|editor1-first=Stephanie|title=Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions since 1800|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415624336|page=63|quote=Perhaps the most important legacy of Yermolov was his intention from early on to prepare the ground for the conquest of the remaining khanates under Iranian rule and to make the River Aras the new border. (...) Another provocative action by Yermolov was the Russian occupation of the northern shore of Lake Gokcha (Sivan) in the Khanate of Iravan in 1825. A clear violation of Golestan, this action was the most significant provocation by the Russian side. The Lake Gokcha occupation clearly showed that it was Russia and not Iran which initiated hostilities and breached Golestan, and that Iran was left with no choice but to come up with a proper response.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Dowling|editor1-first=Timothy C.|title=Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond|date=2015|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1598849486|page=729|quote=In May 1826, Russia therefore occupied Mirak, in the Erivan khanate, in violation of the Treaty of Gulistan.}}</ref> This sparked the final bout of hostilities between the two; the [[Russo-Persian War (1826-1828)|Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828]]. It ended even more disastrously for Qajar Iran with temporary occupation of [[Tabriz]] and the signing of the [[Treaty of Turkmenchay]] in 1828, acknowledging Russian sovereignty over the entire [[South Caucasus]] and Dagestan, as well as therefore the ceding of what is nowadays [[Armenia]] and the remaining part of [[Republic of Azerbaijan]];<ref name="Timothy C. Dowling pp 729"/> the new border between neighboring Russia and Iran were set at the [[Aras River]]. Iran had by these two treaties, in the course of the 19th century, irrevocably lost the territories which had formed part of the concept of Iran for centuries.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=330}} The area to the North of the river Aras, among which the territory of the contemporary republic of Azerbaijan, eastern Georgia, Dagestan, and Armenia were Iranian territory until they were occupied by Russia in the course of the 19th century.<ref name="Timothy C. Dowling pp 729" /><ref name="Swietochowski Borderland">{{cite book |last=Swietochowski|first=Tadeusz |authorlink= Tadeusz Swietochowski |year=1995|title=Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition|pages= 69, 133 |edition= |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FfRYRwAACAAJ&dq=Russia+and+Iran+in+the+great+game:+travelogues+and+orientalism|isbn=978-0-231-07068-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=L. Batalden|first=Sandra |year=1997|title=The newly independent states of Eurasia: handbook of former Soviet republics|page= 98|edition= |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WFjPAxhBEaEC&dq=The+newly+independent+states+of+Eurasia:+handbook+of+former+Soviet+republics|isbn=978-0-89774-940-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=E. Ebel, Robert|first=Menon, Rajan |year=2000|title=Energy and conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus|page= 181 |edition= |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-sCpf26vBZ0C&dq=Energy+and+conflict+in+Central+Asia+and+the+Caucasus|isbn=978-0-7425-0063-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Andreeva|first=Elena |year=2010|title=Russia and Iran in the great game: travelogues and orientalism|page= 6 |edition= reprint |publisher=Taylor & Francis | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FfRYRwAACAAJ&dq=%3DRussia+and+Iran+in+the+great+game:+travelogues+and+orientalism|isbn=978-0-415-78153-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Çiçek, Kemal|first=Kuran, Ercüment |year=2000|title=The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation|edition= |publisher=University of Michigan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c5VpAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Great+Ottoman-Turkish+Civilisation&dq=The+Great+Ottoman-Turkish+Civilisation|isbn=978-975-6782-18-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ernest Meyer, Karl |first=Blair Brysac, Shareen |year=2006|title=Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia|page= 66 |edition= |publisher=Basic Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ssv-GONnxTsC&dq=Tournament+of+Shadows:+The+Great+Game+and+the+Race+for+Empire+in+Central+Asia|isbn=978-0-465-04576-1}}</ref>

As a further direct result and consequence of the Gulistan and Turkmenchay treaties of 1813 and 1828 respectively, the formerly Iranian territories became now part of Russia for around the next 180 years, except Dagestan, which remained a Russian possession ever since. Out of the greater part of the territory, three separate nations would be formed through the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1991, namely Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Lastly and equally important, as a result of Russia's imposing of the two treaties, It also decisively parted the [[Azerbaijanis]]<ref>"However the result of the Treaty of Turkmenchay was a tragedy for the Azerbaijani people. It demarcated a borderline through their territory along the Araxes river, a border that still today divides the Azerbaijani people." in Svante Cornell, "Small nations and great powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus", Richmond: Curzon Press, 2001, p. 37.</ref> and [[Talysh people|Talysh]]<ref>Michael P. Croissant, "The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: causes and implications", Praeger/Greenwood,1998 - Page 67: ''The historical homeland of the Talysh was divided between Russia and Iran in 1813''.</ref> ever since between two nations.

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File:Battle Between Persians and Russians - State Hermitage Museum.jpg|[[Battle of Sultanabad]], 13 February 1812. [[State Hermitage Museum]].
File:Russian troops storming Lankaran fortress, January 13th, 1813..jpg|[[Storming of Lankaran]], January 13, 1813. [[Franz Roubaud]].
File:%D0%A1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC.jpeg|[[Battle of Ganja (1826)|Battle of Ganja]], 1826. Franz Roubaud. Part of the collection of the Museum for History, [[Baku]].
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====Migration of Caucasian Muslims====
{{See also|Ayrums|Qarapapaqs|Ethnic Cleansing of Circassians}}

Following the official losing of the aforementioned vast territories in the Caucasus, major demographic shifts were bound to take place. Solidly Persian-speaking territories of Iran were lost, with all its inhabitants in it. Following the 1804-1814 War, but also per the 1826-1828 war which ceded the last territories, large migrations, so-called [[Ethnic Cleansing of Circassians|Caucasian Muhajirs]], set off to migrate to mainland Iran. Some of these groups included the [[Ayrums]], [[Qarapapaqs]], [[Circassians]], Shia [[Lezgins]], and other [[Transcaucasus|Transcaucasian]] Muslims.<ref name="Caucasus Survey">{{cite web|url=http://www.caucasus-survey.org/vol1-no2/yemelianova-islam-nationalism-state-muslim-caucasus.php|title=Caucasus Survey|accessdate=23 April 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415070826/http://www.caucasus-survey.org/vol1-no2/yemelianova-islam-nationalism-state-muslim-caucasus.php|archivedate=15 April 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

[[File:Взятии штурмом крепости Гянджи.jpg|thumb|[[:ru:Шарлемань, Адольф Иосифович|A. Sharlmann]] "[[Battle of Ganja (1804)|Battle of Ganja]]" during the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813)]]

Through the [[Battle of Ganja (1804)|Battle of Ganja of 1804]] during the [[Russo-Persian War (1804-1813)]], many thousands of Ayrums and Qarapapaqs were settled in Tabriz. During the remaining part of the 1804-1813 war, as well as through the [[Russo-Persian War (1826-1828)|1826-1828 war]], the absolute bulk of the Ayrums and Qarapapaqs that were still remaining in newly conquered Russian territories were settled in and migrated to [[Solduz]] (in modern-day Iran's [[West Azerbaijan province]]).<ref name="Mansoori">{{cite book|last=Mansoori|first=Firooz|title=Studies in History, Language and Culture of Azerbaijan|year=2008|publisher=Hazar-e Kerman|location=Tehran|isbn=978-600-90271-1-8|page=245|chapter=17|language=fa}}</ref> As the ''[[Cambridge History of Iran]]'' states; "The steady encroachment of Russian troops along the frontier in the Caucasus, General [[Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov|Yermolov]]'s brutal punitive expeditions and misgovernment, drove large numbers of Muslims, and even some [[Georgians|Georgian]] Christians, into exile in Iran."{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|1991|p=336}}

In 1864 until the early 20th century, [[Ethnic cleansing of Circassians|another mass expulsion took place]] of Caucasian Muslims as a result of the Russian victory in the [[Caucasian War]]. Others simply voluntarily refused to live under [[Christians|Christian]] Russian rule, and thus disembarked for Turkey or Iran. These migrations once again, towards Iran, included masses of Caucasian [[Azerbaijanis]], other Transcaucasian Muslims, as well as many North Caucasian Muslims, such as Circassians, Shia Lezgins and [[Lak people (Dagestan)|Laks]].<ref name="Caucasus Survey"/><ref>А. Г. Булатова. Лакцы (XIX — нач. XX вв.). Историко-этнографические очерки. — Махачкала, 2000.</ref>
Many of these migrants would prove to play a pivotal role in further Iranian history, as they formed most of the ranks of the [[Persian Cossack Brigade]], which was also to be established in the late 19th century.<ref name="mepc.org">{{cite web|url=http://mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/iranian-armed-forces-politics-revolution-and-war-part-one?print|title=The Iranian Armed Forces in Politics, Revolution and War: Part One|accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref> The initial ranks of the brigade would be entirely composed of [[Circassians]] and other Caucasian Muhajirs.<ref name="mepc.org"/> This brigade would prove decisive in the following decades to come in Qajar history.

Furthermore, the 1828 [[Treaty of Turkmenchay]] included the official rights for the Russian Empire to encourage settling of [[Armenians]] from Iran in the newly conquered Russian territories.<ref>"Griboedov not only extended protection to those Caucasian captives who sought to go home but actively promoted the return of even those who did not volunteer. Large numbers of Georgian and Armenian captives had lived in Iran since 1804 or as far back as 1795."
Fisher, William Bayne;Avery, Peter; Gershevitch, Ilya; Hambly, Gavin; Melville, Charles. ''The Cambridge History of Iran'' Cambridge University Press, 1991. p. 339.</ref><ref>{{ru icon}} [http://feb-web.ru/feb/griboed/texts/piks3/3_4_v3.htm A. S. Griboyedov. "Записка о переселеніи армянъ изъ Персіи въ наши области"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113142046/http://feb-web.ru/feb/griboed/texts/piks3/3_4_v3.htm |date=13 January 2016 }}, Фундаментальная Электронная Библиотека</ref> Until the mid-fourteenth century, Armenians had constituted a majority in [[Eastern Armenia]].{{sfn|Bournoutian|1980|pages=11, 13–14}}
At the close of the fourteenth century, after [[Timur]]'s campaigns, Islam had become the dominant faith, and Armenians became a minority in Eastern Armenia.{{sfn|Bournoutian|1980|pages=11, 13–14}} After centuries of constant warfare on the Armenian Plateau, many Armenians chose to emigrate and settle elsewhere. Following [[Shah Abbas I]]'s massive relocation of Armenians and Muslims in 1604-05,<ref>[[Arakel of Tabriz]]. ''The Books of Histories''; chapter 4. Quote: "[The Shah] deep inside understood that he would be unable to resist Sinan Pasha, i.e. the Sardar of Jalaloghlu, in a[n open] battle. Therefore he ordered to relocate the whole population of Armenia - Christians, Jews and Muslims alike, to Persia, so that the Ottomans find the country depopulated."</ref> their numbers dwindled even further.

At the time of the Russian invasion of Iran, some 80% of the population of [[Iranian Armenia (1502-1828)|Iranian Armenia]] were Muslims ([[Persian people|Persians]], [[Turkic peoples|Turkics]], and [[Kurds]]) whereas Christian [[Armenians]] constituted a minority of about 20%.{{sfn|Bournoutian|1980|pages=12–13}} As a result of the [[Treaty of Gulistan]] (1813) and the Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828), Iran was forced to cede Iranian Armenia (which also constituted the present-day [[Armenia]]), to the Russians.{{sfn|Bournoutian|1980|pages=1–2}}{{sfn|Mikaberidze|2015|page=141}} After the Russian administration took hold of Iranian Armenia, the ethnic make-up shifted, and thus for the first time in more than four centuries, ethnic Armenians started to form a majority once again in one part of historic Armenia.{{sfn|Bournoutian|1980|page=14}} The new Russian administration encouraged the settling of ethnic Armenians from Iran proper and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turkey]]. As a result, by 1832, the number of ethnic Armenians had matched that of the Muslims.{{sfn|Bournoutian|1980|pages=12–13}} It would be only after the [[Crimean War]] and the [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)|Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878]], which brought another influx of Turkish Armenians, that ethnic Armenians once again established a solid majority in [[Eastern Armenia]].{{sfn|Bournoutian|1980|page=13}} Nevertheless, the city of Erivan retained a Muslim majority up to the twentieth century.{{sfn|Bournoutian|1980|page=13}} According to the traveller [[H. F. B. Lynch]], the city was about 50% Armenian and 50% Muslim ([[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijanis]] and Persians) in the early 1890s.{{sfn|Kettenhofen|Bournoutian|Hewsen|1998|pages=542–551}}

Fath Ali Shah's reign saw increased diplomatic contacts with the West and the beginning of intense European diplomatic rivalries over Iran. His grandson [[Mohammad Shah Qajar|Mohammad Shah]], who fell under the Russian influence and made two unsuccessful attempts to capture [[Herat]], succeeded him in 1834. When Mohammad Shah died in 1848 the succession passed to his son Nasser-e-Din, who proved to be the ablest and most successful of the Qajar sovereigns. He founded the first modern hospital in Iran.<ref>Azizi, Mohammad-Hossein. "The historical backgrounds of the Ministry of Health foundation in Iran." Arch Iran Med 10.1 (2007): 119-23.</ref>

===Development and decline===
[[File:Molla2.jpg|thumb|[[Mullah]]s in the royal presence. The painting style is distinctly Qajar.]]
[[File:A Zoroastrian Family Teheran 1910.JPG|thumb|A [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]] family in Qajar Iran]]

During [[Nasser-al-Din Shah|Nasser-e-Din Shah]]'s reign, Western science, technology, and educational methods were introduced into Persia and the country's modernization was begun. Nasser ed-Din Shah tried to exploit the mutual distrust between Great Britain and Russia to preserve Persia's independence, but foreign interference and territorial encroachment increased under his rule. He was not able to prevent [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] and Russia from encroaching into regions of traditional Persian influence. In 1856, during the [[Anglo-Persian War]], Britain prevented Persia from reasserting control over [[Herat]]. The city had been part of Persia in Safavid times, but Herat had been under non-Persian rule since the mid-18th century. Britain also extended its control to other areas of the [[Persian Gulf]] during the 19th century. Meanwhile, by 1881, Russia had completed its conquest of present-day [[Turkmenistan]] and [[Uzbekistan]], bringing Russia's frontier to Persia's northeastern borders and severing historic Persian ties to the cities of [[Bukhara]] and [[Samarqand]]. Several trade concessions by the Persian government put economic affairs largely under [[Great Britain|British]] control. By the late 19th century, many Persians believed that their rulers were beholden to foreign interests.

[[Mirza Taghi Khan Amir Kabir]], was the young prince Nasser-e-Din's advisor and constable. With the death of Mohammad Shah in 1848, Mirza Taqi was largely responsible for ensuring the crown prince's succession to the throne. When Nasser ed-Din succeeded to the throne, Amir Nezam was awarded the position of prime minister and the title of [[Amir Kabir]], the Great Ruler.

At that time, Persia was nearly bankrupt. During the next two and a half years Amir Kabir initiated important reforms in virtually all sectors of society. Government expenditure was slashed, and a distinction was made between the private and public purses. The instruments of central administration were overhauled, and Amir Kabir assumed responsibility for all areas of the bureaucracy. Foreign interference in Persia's domestic affairs was curtailed, and foreign trade was encouraged. Public works such as the bazaar in Tehran were undertaken. Amir Kabir issued an edict banning ornate and excessively formal writing in government documents; the beginning of a modern Persian prose style dates from this time.

[[File:1800 19th Street NW.JPG|thumb|left|A former Persian [[Legation]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]

One of the greatest achievements of Amir Kabir was the building of [[Dar ul-Funun (Persia)|Dar ol Fonoon]] in 1851, the first modern university in Persia and the Middle East. Dar-ol-Fonoon was established for training a new cadre of administrators and acquainting them with Western techniques. It marked the beginning of modern education in Persia.<ref name="DĀR AL-FONŪN">{{cite web|title=DĀR AL-FONŪN|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dar-al-fonun-lit|website=Encyclopaedia Iranica|accessdate=6 January 2016}}</ref> Amir Kabir ordered the school to be built on the edge of the city so it could be expanded as needed. He hired French and Russian instructors as well as Persians to teach subjects as different as Language, Medicine, Law, Geography, History, Economics, and Engineering, amongst numerous others.<ref name="DĀR AL-FONŪN"/> Unfortunately, Amir Kabir did not live long enough to see his greatest monument completed, but it still stands in Tehran as a sign of a great man's ideas for the future of his country.

These reforms antagonized various notables who had been excluded from the government. They regarded the Amir Kabir as a social upstart and a threat to their interests, and they formed a coalition against him, in which the queen mother was active. She convinced the young shah that Amir Kabir wanted to usurp the throne. In October 1851, the shah dismissed him and exiled him to [[Kashan]], where he was murdered on the shah's orders. Through his marriage to Ezzat od-Doleh, Amir Kabir had been the brother-in-law of the shah.

===Constitutional Revolution===
{{main|Iranian Constitutional Revolution}}
[[File:Yek toman qajar.jpg|thumb|Qajar-era currency bill featuring a depiction of [[Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar]].]]

When [[Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar]] was assassinated by [[Mirza Reza Kermani]] in 1896,{{sfn|Amanat|1997|page=440}} the crown passed to his son [[Mozzafar-al-Din Shah|Mozaffar-e-din]].{{sfn|Amanat|1997|page=440}} Mozaffar-e-din Shah was a moderate, but relatively ineffective ruler. Royal extravagances coincided with an inadequate ability to secure state revenue which further exacerbated the financial woes of the Qajar. In response, the Shah procured two large loans from Russia (in part to fund personal trips to Europe). Public anger mounted as the Shah sold off concessions – such as road building monopolies, authority to collect duties on imports, etc. – to European interests in return for generous payments to the Shah and his officials. Popular demand to curb arbitrary royal authority in favor of rule of law increased as concern regarding growing foreign penetration and influence heightened.

[[File:Brooklyn Museum - Mozaffar al-Din Shah and Attendants Seated in a Garden One of 274 Vintage Photographs.jpg|thumb|left|Mozaffar al-Din Shah and Attendants Seated in a Garden One of 274 vintage photographs ([[Brooklyn Museum]])]]

The shah's failure to respond to protests by the religious establishment, the merchants, and other classes led the merchants and clerical leaders in January 1906 to take sanctuary from probable arrest in mosques in Tehran and outside the capital. When the shah reneged on a promise to permit the establishment of a "house of justice", or consultative assembly, 10,000 people, led by the merchants, took sanctuary in June in the compound of the British legation in Tehran. In August, the shah, through the issue of a decree promised a constitution. In October, an elected assembly convened and drew up a constitution that provided for strict limitations on royal power, an elected parliament, or [[Majles]], with wide powers to represent the people, and a government with a cabinet subject to confirmation by the Majles. The shah signed the constitution on December 30, 1906, but refusing to forfeit all of his power to the Majles, attached a caveat that made his signature on all laws required for their enactment. He died five days later. The Supplementary Fundamental Laws approved in 1907 provided, within limits, for freedom of press, speech, and association, and for security of life and property. The hopes for constitutional rule were not realized, however.

[[File:Persian Cossack Brigade.jpg|thumb|250px|Persian Cossack Brigade in [[Tabriz]] in 1909]]

Mozaffar-e-din Shah's son [[Mohammad Ali Shah]] (reigned 1907–1909), who, through his mother, was also the grandson of Prime-Minister Amir Kabir (see before), with the aid of Russia, attempted to rescind the constitution and abolish parliamentary government. After several disputes with the members of the Majles, in June 1908 he used his Russian-officered [[Persian Cossack Brigade]] (almost solely composed of [[Ethnic Cleansing of Circassians|Caucasian Muhajirs]]), to bomb the Majlis building, arrest many of the deputies (December 1907), and close down the assembly (June 1908).{{sfn|Kohn|2006|page=408}} Resistance to the shah, however, coalesced in [[Tabriz]], [[Isfahan (city)|Isfahan]], [[Rasht]], and elsewhere. In July 1909, constitutional forces marched from Rasht to Tehran led by Mohammad Vali Khan Sepahsalar Khalatbari Tonekaboni, deposed the Shah, and re-established the constitution. The ex-shah went into exile in Russia. Shah died in [[San Remo, Italy]], in April 1925. Every future Shah of Iran would also die in exile.

On 16 July 1909, the Majles voted to place Mohammad Ali Shah's 11-year-old son, [[Ahmad Shah Qajar|Ahmad Shah]] on the throne.{{sfn|Holt|Lambton|Lewis|1977|page=597}} Although the constitutional forces had triumphed, they faced serious difficulties. The upheavals of the Constitutional Revolution and civil war had undermined stability and trade. In addition, the ex-shah, with Russian support, attempted to regain his throne, landing troops in July 1910. Most serious of all, the hope that the Constitutional Revolution would inaugurate a new era of independence from the great powers ended when, under the [[Anglo-Russian Entente]] of 1907, Britain and Russia agreed to divide Persia into spheres of influence. The Russians were to enjoy exclusive right to pursue their interests in the northern sphere, the British in the south and east; both powers would be free to compete for economic and political advantage in a neutral sphere in the center. Matters came to a head when [[Morgan Shuster]], a United States administrator hired as treasurer general by the Persian government to reform its finances, sought to collect taxes from powerful officials who were Russian protégés and to send members of the treasury gendarmerie, a tax department police force, into the Russian zone. When in December 1911 the Majlis unanimously refused a Russian ultimatum demanding Shuster's dismissal, Russian troops, already in the country, moved to occupy the capital. To prevent this, on 20 December, Bakhtiari chiefs, and their troops surrounded the Majles building, forced acceptance of the Russian ultimatum, and shut down the assembly, once again suspending the constitution.

===World War I and related events===
{{main|Persian campaign}}
{{See also|Jungle Movement of Gilan|Persian Socialist Soviet Republic}}
Though Qajar Iran had announced strict neutrality on the first day of November 1914 (which was reiterated by each successive government thereafter),{{sfn|Atabaki|2006|page=9}} the neighboring [[Ottoman Empire]] invaded it relatively shortly after, in the same year. At that time, large parts of Iran were under tight Russian influence and control, and since 1910 Russian forces were present inside the country, while many of its cities possessed Russian garrisons.{{sfn|Atabaki|2006|page=9}} Due to the latter reason, as Prof. Dr. [[Touraj Atabaki]] states, declaring neutrality was useless, especially as Iran had no force to implement this policy.{{sfn|Atabaki|2006|page=9}}

At the beginning of the war, the Ottomans invaded [[Iranian Azerbaijan]].{{sfn|Atabaki|2006|page=10}} Numerous clashes would take place there between the [[Russian Caucasus Army (World War I)|Russians]], who were further aided by the [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]] under [[Agha Petros]] as well as [[Armenia]]n volunteer units and battalions, and the Ottomans on the other side.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} However, with the advent of the [[Russian Revolution]] of 1917 and the subsequent withdrawal of most of the Russian troops, the Ottomans gained the clear upper hand in Iran, and annexed large parts of it for some time{{cn|date=March 2019}}. Between 1914-1918, the [[Ottoman Army|Ottoman troops]] massacred many thousands of Iran's Assyrian and Armenian population, as part of the [[Assyrian Genocide|Assyrian]] and [[Armenian Genocide]]s, respectively{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}.

The front in Iran would last up to the [[Armistice of Mudros]] in 1918.

===Fall of the dynasty===
[[Ahmad Shah Qajar]] was born 21 January 1898 in [[Tabriz]], and succeeded to the throne at age 11. However, the occupation of Persia during [[World War I]] by [[Russian Empire|Russian]], British, and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] troops was a blow from which Ahmad Shah never effectively recovered.

In February 1921, [[Reza Shah|Reza Khan]], commander of the [[Persian Cossack Brigade]], staged a [[1921 Persian coup d'état|coup d'état]], becoming the effective ruler of Iran. In 1923, Ahmad Shah went into exile in Europe. Reza Khan induced the [[Majles]] to depose Ahmad Shah in October 1925, and to exclude the Qajar dynasty permanently. Reza Khan was subsequently proclaimed monarch as ''[[Reza Shah Pahlavi]]'', reigning from 1925 to 1941.

Ahmad Shah died on 21 February 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, [[France]].
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== Administrative division ==

The Empire was divided in 5 large provinces and a large number of smaller ones at the beginning of Fath Ali Shah's reign, about 20 provinces in 1847, 39 in 1886, but 18 in 1906<ref>Willem M. Floor, ''A Fiscal History of Iran in the Safavid and Qajar Periods, 1500-1925''.</ref>. In 1868, most province governors were Qajar princes<ref>Frederick Millingen, ''La Turquie sous le règne d’Abdul-Aziz''.</ref>.

== Military ==
{{See also|Persian Army#Qajar Era (1794 to 1925)}}

In 1921, the [[Persian Cossack Brigade]] was merged with the gendarmerie and other forces.


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The Qajar dynasty (listenⓘ; Persian: سلسله قاجار Selsele-ye Qājār;[a]) was an Iranian[1] royal dynasty and empire of Turkic origin,[2][3][4][5] specifically from the Qajar tribe, from 1789 to 1925.[6][7] The Qajar family took full control of Iran in 1794, deposing Lotf 'Ali Khan, the last Shah of the Zand dynasty, and re-asserted Iranian sovereignty over large parts of the Caucasus. In 1796, Mohammad Khan Qajar seized Mashhad with ease,[8] putting an end to the Afsharid dynasty, and Mohammad Khan was formally crowned as Shah after his punitive campaign against Iran's Georgian subjects.[9] In the Caucasus, the Qajar dynasty permanently lost many of Iran's integral areas[10] to the Russians over the course of the 19th century, comprising modern-day Georgia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan and Armenia.[11]

Qajar Shahs of Persia, 1789–1925

Name Portrait Title Born-Died Entered office Left office
1 Mohammad Khan Qajar Khan[12]
Shah[12] 		1742–1797 1789 17 June 1797
2 Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar Shahanshah[12]
Khaqan[12] 		1772–1834 17 June 1797 23 October 1834
3 Mohammad Shah Qajar Khaqan son of Khaqan[12] 1808–1848 23 October 1834 5 September 1848
4 Naser al-Din Shah Qajar Zell'ollah (Shadow of God [on earth])[12]
Qebleh-ye 'ālam (Pivot of the Universe)[12]
Islampanah (Refuge of Islam)[12] 		1831–1896 5 September 1848 1 May 1896
5 Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar 1853–1907 1 May 1896 3 January 1907
6 Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar 1872–1925 3 January 1907 16 July 1909
7 Ahmad Shah Qajar Sultan 1898–1930 16 July 1909 15 December 1925

Qajar imperial family

The Qajar Imperial Family in exile is currently headed by the eldest descendant of Mohammad Ali Shah, Soltan Mohammad Ali Mirza Qajar, while the Heir Presumptive to the Qajar throne is Mohammad Hassan Mirza II, the grandson of Mohammad Hassan Mirza, Soltan Ahmad Shah's brother and heir. Mohammad Hassan Mirza died in England in 1943, having proclaimed himself shah in exile in 1930 after the death of his brother in France.

Today, the descendants of the Qajars often identify themselves as such and hold reunions to stay socially acquainted through the Kadjar (Qajar) Family Association,[13] often coinciding with the annual conferences and meetings of the International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA). The Kadjar (Qajar) Family Association was founded for a third time in 2000. Two earlier family associations were stopped because of political pressure. The offices and archives of IQSA are housed at the International Museum for Family History in Eijsden.

Titles and styles

The shah and his consort were styled Imperial Majesty. Their children were addressed as Imperial Highness, while male-line grandchildren were entitled to the lower style of Highness; all of them bore the title of Shahzadeh or Shahzadeh Khanoum.[14]

Qajar dynasty since 1925

Heads of the Qajar Imperial Family

The headship of the Imperial Family is inherited by the eldest male descendant of Mohammad Ali Shah.

Heirs Presumptive of the Qajar dynasty

The Heir Presumptive is the Qajar heir to the Persian throne.

Notable members

Bahram Mirza
Feyzullah Mirza Qajar
Politics
Military
Social work
Business

Religion

Women's rights
  • Princess Mohtaram Eskandari, intellectual and pioneering figures in Iranian women's movement.[15]
  • Dr. Iran Teymourtash (Légion d'honneur) (1914–1991), journalist, editor and publisher of Rastakhiz newspaper, founder of an association for helping destitute women. Daughter of court minister Abdolhossein Teymourtash and through both her maternal grandparents a Qajar.[16]
Literature
Entertainment

See also

Template:Former monarchic orders of succession

Notes

  1. ^ Also Romanised as Ghajar, Kadjar, Qachar etc.

References

  1. ^ Abbas Amanat, The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896, I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3
  2. ^ Cyrus Ghani. Iran and the Rise of the Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power, I. B. Tauris, 2000, ISBN 1-86064-629-8, p. 1
  3. ^ William Bayne Fisher. Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 344, ISBN 0-521-20094-6
  4. ^ Dr Parviz Kambin, A History of the Iranian Plateau: Rise and Fall of an Empire, Universe, 2011, p.36, online edition.
  5. ^ Jamie Stokes and Anthony Gorman, Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, 2010, p.707, Online Edition: "The Safavid and Qajar dynasties, rulers in Iran from 1501 to 1722 and from 1795 to 1925 respectively, were Turkic in origin."
  6. ^ Abbas Amanat, The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896, I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3; "In the 126 years between the fall of the Safavid state in 1722 and the accession of Nasir al-Din Shah, the Qajars evolved from a shepherd-warrior tribe with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty."
  7. ^ Choueiri, Youssef M., A companion to the history of the Middle East, (Blackwell Ltd., 2005), 231,516.
  8. ^ H. Scheel; Jaschke, Gerhard; H. Braun; Spuler, Bertold; T Koszinowski; Bagley, Frank (1981). Muslim World. Brill Archive. pp. 65, 370. ISBN 978-90-04-06196-5. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  9. ^ Michael Axworthy. Iran: Empire of the Mind: A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day, Penguin UK, 6 Nov. 2008. ISBN 0141903414
  10. ^ Fisher et al. 1991, p. 330.
  11. ^ Timothy C. Dowling. Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond, pp 728-730 ABC-CLIO, 2 dec. 2014 ISBN 1598849484
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h Amanat, Abbas (1997), Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896, Comparative studies on Muslim societies, I.B.Tauris, p. 10, ISBN 9781860640971
  13. ^ "Qajar People". Qajars. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  14. ^ Qajar (Kadjar) Titles and Appellations
  15. ^ Paidar 1997, p. 95.
  16. ^ L.A. Ferydoun Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn (Khosrovani) (ed.), Qajar Studies. Journal of the International Qaja Studies Association, vol. X-XI, Rotterdam, Gronsveld, Santa Barbara and Tehran 2011, p. 220.
  17. ^ Caton 1988.

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