State · 1789 – 1925
Qajar Iran
A state of 1789 – 1925 — 136 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Afsharid Iran. It was replaced by Pahlavi Iran. The atlas records 16 things within it — unrest and atrocity 5 · famine and plague 1 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 136 years
- 1789 – 1925
- Rulers
- 3
- the Qajar Grand Vizier
- Within it
- 16
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
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
- Afsharid Iran · follows · 1736 – 1796
After it
- Pahlavi Iran · replaced by · 1925 – 1979
Rulers
The line of Qajar Grand Vizier.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar | 1789 – 1797 | 8 years | ending not on record | |
| Ebrahim Khan Kalantar | 1794 – 1801 | 7 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Ahmad Shah Qajar | 1909 – 1925 | 16 years | ending not on record |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1789 – 1925. Median reign 8 years. 2 of 2 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”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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flag, undatedState flag of Persia (1907–1933) · Public domain .svg/120px-Imperial_Emblem_of_the_Qajar_Dynasty_(Lion_and_Sun).svg.png)
coat of arms, undatedImperial Emblem of the Qajar Dynasty (Lion and 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 – 17991 row
- Abbas Mirza · politician · 1789 – 1833
1800 – 189911 rows · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Baháʼu'lláh · religious leader · 1817 – 1892
- Báb · religious leader · 1819 – 1850
- Ahmad Kasravi · philosopher · 1890 – 1946
- Iraj Mirza · writer · 1874 – 1926
- Simko Shikak · politician · 1887 – 1930
- Aref Qazvini · artist · 1882 – 1934
- Tobacco Protest · unrest · 1890 – 1892
- Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Soltan · politician · 1858 – 1907
and 3 more in the atlas.
1900 – 19994 rows · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Jungle Movement of Gilan · unrest · 1915 – 1920
- Shiraz pogrom · atrocity · 1910
- Persian famine of 1917–1919 · famine · 1917 – 1919
- Persian Constitutional Revolution · unrest · 1905 – 1911
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 stood136 years
stood longer than 53% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- 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 median8 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 29% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 5 causes the record names and 1 result, 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.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 1 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 136
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1775 – 1939, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1857, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q63158027 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.