Reza Qoli Mirza Afshar (Persian: رضا قلی میرزا افشار; 1719–1747) was the eldest son of Nader Shah of Afsharid Iran. After his father's coronation in 1736, Reza Qoli, aged 17, became the Governor of the province of Khorasan. During his tenure, he...
Shahrokh Mirza (Persian: شاهرخمیرزا; 1734–1796), better known by his dynastic title of Shahrokh Shah (شاهرخ شاه), was the Afsharid king (shah) of the western part of Khorasan (corresponding to the present-day Khorasan Province) from 1748 to...
Abbas III (Persian: شاه عباس سوم, romanized: ʿAbbās; January 1732 – February 1740) was a son of Shah Tahmasp II and Shahpari Begum of the Safavid dynasty and reigned from 1732 to 1736. After the deposition of his father by Nader Khan (the future...
Nader Shah Afshar (born Nadr Qoli; Persian: نادرشاه افشار; 6 August 1698 or 22 October 1688 – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history, ruling as the emperor of Iran...
Mirza Reza Khan Afshar (Persian: میرزا رضا خان افشار; 10 October 1887 – 5 February 1964) was an Iranian parliamentarian, three-time governor of Gilan, Kerman, and Esfahan; minister of roads and transportation, as well as the pioneering co-founder,...
Tahmasp Khan Jalayer (full name: Tahmasp Qoli Khan Jalayer; Persian: تهماسب قلیخان جلایر) was one of the most prominent and battle-hardened generals of the Naderian wars and served Nader Shah from the very early days of his military career in...
Nader Shah, the founder of Afsharid dynasty, captured Samarkand (Persian: فتح سمرقند), one of the main political and economic centres of the region, during his Central Asian campaign in 1740. For Nader Shah, who was an admirer of Amir Timur,...
1719 (MDCCXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1719th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 719th year of the 2nd...
Morteza Mirza Afshar (Persian: مرتضیمیرزا افشار) was an Afsharid prince and the son of Nader Shah of Iran, who was renamed Nasrollah Mirza (نصراللهمیرزا افشار) in honour of his role in the victory at Karnal. He proved to be a talented military...
Aza is a given name in several parts of the world. In English, the usual pronunciation is azā (ah-zah). The name is a modern form of the Persian name Reza.