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State · 1736 – 1796

Afsharid Iran

A state of 1736 – 1796 — 60 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Safavid Iran and Safavid Kurdistan. It was followed by Qajar Iran. The atlas records 4 things within it — wars and battles 1 · famine and plague 1 · treaties 1 · people 1. Its line of rulers holds 4 people. Its own article says it was conquered.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
60 years
1736 – 1796
Rulers
4
the King of Kings
Most ground
3.46 million km²
in 1744
Within it
4
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Afsharid Iran in 1744, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Afsharid Iran in 1744, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 3.46 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Safavid Iran: 1501 – 1736Qajar Iran: 1789 – 1925Afsharid Iran: 1736 – 1796

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

  • Safavid Iran · follows · 1501 – 1736
  • Safavid Kurdistan · follows

After it

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered, 1796. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The Afsharid dynasty was finally overthrown in 1796 by Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, who founded the Qajar Empire and reestablished Iranian suzerainty over the previously lost regions.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

Nader Shah · 1736 – 1747 · no death date to read the end againstAdel Shah · 1747 – 1748 · no death date to read the end againstEbrahim Afshar · 1748 – 1748 · no death date to read the end againstShahrokh Shah · 1748 – 1796 · no death date to read the end against174017501760177017801790
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Nader Shah1736 – 174711 yearsending not on record
Adel Shah1747 – 17481 yearending not on recordnephew or niece
Ebrahim Afshar1748 – 1748under a yearending not on recordsibling
Shahrokh Shah1748 – 179648 yearsending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1736 – 1796. Median reign 6 years. 0 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

1740174517501755

1.60 million km² in 1736, 926,700 km² in 1756; at its largest 3.46 million km² in 1746. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Nadir Shah Flag
    flag, undatedNadir Shah Flag · Public domain
  • Lion and the Sun
    coat of arms, undatedLion and the Sun · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1700 – 17994 rows · 1 wars and battles

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood60 years

    stood longer than 37% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held3,460,500 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 96% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median11 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record4

    has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 4 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Safavid Iran · Linked · 1501 – 1736Safavid IranAfsharid conquests in the Persian Gulf and Oman · Linked · 1735 – 1747Afsharid conquests in the Persia…Mughal–Persian Wars · Coincidence · 1557 – 1739Mughal–Persian WarsNader Shah · Coincidence · 1688 – 1747Nader ShahAfsharid Iran · 1736 – 1796Afsharid IranQajar Iran · Linked · 1789 – 1925Qajar IranKabul · In the article · 1200 · “This led to the capture of Ghazni, Kabul, Peshawar, Sindh and Lahore. As Nader moved into Mughal territories, he was accompanied by his loyal Georgian subject…”Kabul1200140016001800
in the articlelinkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q63149558 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.