TEHRAN - A significant cultural heritage preservation initiative has culminated in the digitization and cataloguing of rare ...

Nadir Shah, the Persian emperor, invaded India with a small army and left with immense wealth, dealing a crushing blow to the once-mighty Mughal Empire.

Nader Shah was a Persian, who belonged to the Turkmen Afshar tribe of Khorasan in Persia. Nader Shah was born in the fortress of Dastgerd into the clan of the Afshars, a semi-nomadic Turkic ...

And this is how Afghanistan was born. Emperor Muhammad Shah Rangila signed a treaty with Persian invaded Nadir Shah on May 26, 1739 for the formal cession of key Afghan territories to Persia.

Nader Shah’s reign is a catalogue of the ‘ifs and buts of history’. In 2000, Sanjay Subrahmanyam noted that Nader was in a position to conquer India in 1739 and establish an Indo-Persian empire ...

After Nader Shah’s death, these territories were united as the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti. In 1783 under the Treaty of Georgievsk, a protectorate of the Russian Empire over Kartli ...

TEHRAN – The equestrian statue of Nader Shah Afshar, sometimes referred to as the Napoleon of Persia, in his mausoleum in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi province, has undergone some rehabilitation works, ...

However, the first recorded appearance of the Koh I Noor is in 1739 when the Persian Nader Shah invaded and took the famous Peacock Throne of the Mughal emperors, the greatest treasure of the ...

Nadir Shah, the Persian emperor, invaded India with a small army and left with immense wealth, dealing a crushing blow to the once-mighty Mughal Empire.