Afghan supremacy is brief. Tahmasp Quli, a…

1684 CE to 1827 CE

Afghan supremacy is brief.

Tahmasp Quli, a chief of the Afshar tribe, soon expels the Afghans in the name of a surviving member of the Safavi family.

He then assumes power in 1736 in his own name as Nader Shah.

He goes on to drive the Ottomans from Georgia and Armenia and the Russians from the Iranian coast of the Caspian Sea and restores Iranian sover eignty over Afghanistan.

He also takes his army on several campaigns into India, sacking Delhi in 1739 and bringing back fabulous treasures.

Nader Shah achieves political unity but his military campaigns and extortionate taxation prove a terrible drain on a country already ravaged and depopulated by war and disorder, and in 1747 he is murdered by chiefs of his own Afshar tribe.

A period of anarchy marked by a struggle for supremacy among Afshar, Qajar, Afghan, and Zand tribal chieftains folows Nader Shah's death.

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Ottoman–Hotaki War of 1722–1727 View → Persian Civil War of 1725-36 View → Naderian Wars View → Persian-Afghan War of 1726-38 View → Ottoman-Persian War (1730-1735) View → Nader Shah's invasion of India View → Ottoman-Persian War (1743-1746) View → Persian Civil War of 1747-60 View →

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