Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Afsharid Iran: 1736 – 1796Pahlavi Iran: 1925 – 1979Qajar Iran: 1789 – 1925

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

After it

Rulers

The line of Qajar Grand Vizier.

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar · 1789 – 1797 · no death date to read the end againstEbrahim Khan Kalantar · 1794 – 1801 · killedAhmad Shah Qajar · 1909 – 1925 · no death date to read the end against180018501900
killed, executed or dead in battleending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar1789 – 17978 yearsending not on record
Ebrahim Khan Kalantar1794 – 18017 yearskilledWikidata's manner of death
Ahmad Shah Qajar1909 – 192516 yearsending 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.

  • State flag of Persia (1907–1933)
    flag, undatedState flag of Persia (1907–1933) · Public domain
  • Imperial Emblem of the Qajar Dynasty (Lion and Sun)
    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 – 1799: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other17001800 – 1899: 11 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 2 risings, regime changes and massacres, 9 other18001900 – 1999: 4 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 3 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other1900

1700 – 17991 row

1800 – 189911 rows · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 3 more in the atlas.

1900 – 19994 rows · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres

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.

Afsharid Iran · Linked · 1736 – 1796Afsharid IranIlkhanate · In the article · 1256 · “According to the same late legend, the Qajar tribe's namesake ancestor was Qajar Noyan, said to be the son of a Mongol named Sartuq Noyan, who reportedly serv…”IlkhanateErivan Khanate · Coincidence · 1747 – 1828Erivan KhanateNakhichevan Khanate · Coincidence · 1747 – 1828Nakhichevan KhanateKarabakh Khanate · Coincidence · 1748 – 1822Karabakh KhanateQajar Iran · 1789 – 1925Qajar IranPahlavi Iran · Linked · 1925 – 1979Pahlavi Iran1400160018002000
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.

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

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.