Mahmud has begun to succumb to insanity…
April 1725 CE
Mahmud has begun to succumb to insanity as well as physical deterioration.
A group of Afghan officers frees Ashraf Khan from the prison where he had been confined by Mahmud and on April 22, 1725, launch a palace revolution that places Ashraf on the throne.
Mahmud dies three days later, either from his illness—at it is claimed at the time—or murder by suffocation.
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Pashtun people (Pushtuns, Pakhtuns, or Pathans)
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Ghilzai (Pashtun tribal confederacy)
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Ottoman Empire
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Qizilbash or Kizilbash, (Ottoman Turkish for "Crimson/Red Heads")
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Persia, Safavid Kingdom of
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Russian Empire
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Persia, Hotaki Ghilzaid Kingdom of
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