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alternateuses bingocard of Nadir Shah, a popular tourist attraction in MashhadNadir Shah ruled as shah of Iran and India . Nadir Shah is probably the last great Asia military conqueror.He was born in the Dastgerd region of Khorasan, a province of Iran. His father, bingocard a poor peasant, died while Nadir was still a child. Nadir and his mother were carried off as slave by marauding Uzbeg tribesmen, but Nadir managed to escape. He joined a band of brigands while still a boy and eventually advanced to become their leader.

Later he found refuge with the Turkic Afshar tribe, where, under the patronage of Afshar chieftains, he rose through the ranks to a powerful military leader.When in 1719 the Afghans invaded Persian Empire Nadir supported the Safavid ruler Tahmasp II in deference of whom he had named himself Tahmasp Qoli with a force of 5,000 soldiers against the Afghan usurper Mahmud Ghilzay. Nadir defeated the Afghans in the Battle of Damghan, 1729. He drove out the Afghans, who were still occupying Persia, by 1730. In 1729 Tahmasp II was proclaimed

as shah in Isfahan While Nadir was in Khorasan, and puting down the revolt, Tahmpas II moved in person with an army against Ottoman Empire. He was, however, heavily defeated. He concluded peace and Georgia and Armenia was lost. Nader returned to Isfahan, exiled Tahmpas II to Khorasan, deposed him and placed his infant–eight month old–son Abbas III on the throne and declared himself regent. In 1736, after Abbas III died, Nadir ascended to the throne himself, assuming the title Shah.Nadir then turn to the west against Ottoman Empire He defeat Ottomans in several battles.

In siege of Baghdad in 1733 he was defeat behind the walls of the city. Nadir, however, came back with a larger army and the Ottomans was forced to made a peace treaty. Nadir was given the cities on bingocard the west of Aras River to Iran in addition to Karbala and Basra on southern Iraq. With this victory, he recovered all the land lost to the Ottomans before the Afghan invasion.In 1738, Nadir bingocard Shah conquered Kandahar. In the same year he occupied Ghazni, Kabul and Lahore. He continued on to India, crossed the river Indus before the end of year. He defeated the great

Mughal Empire army of Mohammad Shah at the Battle of Karnal, February 24 1739. After victory, Nadir captured Mohammad Shah and entered with him in Delhi where Nadir had Delhi plundered, in the process massacring 30,000 of its people. Nadir returned home with vast treasures, including the Peacock Throne, which thereafter served as a symbol of Persian imperial might, and, among a trove of other fabulous jewels, the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond. The Persian troops left Delhi at the beginning of May 1739, taking with them several thousand Indian girls and a large number of boys as slaves. Nadirs soldiers also took

with them thousands of elephants, horses and camels, loaded with the booty they had collected. The plunder seized bingocard from India was so rich that Nadir stopped taxation in Iran for a period of three years, following his triumphant return.In 1740 Nadir had Tahmasp II and his two infant sons put to death. After India, Nadir atacked Uzbeks in Transoxania. Nadir also started to build a powerful Persian navy. He captured Bahrain from the Arabs. In 1743 he conquered Oman and its main capital,

Muscat.In 1741, after an assassination attempt on him failed, Nadir suspected his oldest son Reza Quli Mirza as being responsible for conspiracy and had him blinding Soon afterwards, Nadir started executing the nobles who had witnessed his sons blinding. In his last years, Nadir became increasingly paranoia ordering the assassination of large numbers of supposed enemies. In 1743 Nadir started another war against the Ottoman Empire. War ended with a peace treaty in 1746; by treaty the Ottomans agreed to let Nadir occupy Najaf. Nadir was assassinated in 1747,

and the empire bingocard he had conquered fell apart shortly afterward. He was assassinated by group officers of his own guard. They surprised him in his sleep and cut his head with a sword. Nadir has been married four times; he has 5 sons and 15 grandsons. He also had 33 women in his harem.During Nadir Shahs brief reign a 40,000-man army was created, and the boundaries of his empire extended to the greatest bingocard in Iran since the days of the Sassanids.After his death, he was succedded by his nephew Adil Shah. During the struggle between

Adil Shah, his brother Ibrahim Khan and Nadirs grandson Shah Rukh of Persia Rukh almost all provincial governors declared independence, established their own states, and the entire Empire of Nadir Shah fell into anarchy. Finally, Karim Khan founded the Zand dynasty and became ruler of Iran by 1760. In 1768, Christian VII of Denmark commissioned William Jones William Jones to translate a Persian language biography of Nadir Shah into French language It was published in 1770 as Histoire de Nadir Chah, and subsequently translated into English language becoming

the vehicle by which Nadir Shah became bingocard known to the reading public in the West.start boxsuccession box two to one before1Abbas III title1List of kings of Persia of Persia years11736–1747 before2- title2Afsharid dynasty years21736–1747 afterAdil Shahend box External links History of Iran: Afsharid Dynasty Nader Shah Mausoleum and Museum Nader ShahMonarchs of Persia Nadir1688 births Nadir1747 deaths Nadirfr:Nâdir Shâhsv:Nadir Shah