Kings and Generals animated historical series on the history of early modern period, Iranian and Muslim empires continues with a video on the rise of Nader Shah during the late stages of the Safavid ...
We follow the rise of Nader Shah from the dangerous borderlands of Khorasan, where raids, poverty, and politics forged a commander with nothing to lose. As the Safavid Empire decays under weak rule ...
Very often, it is not the most powerful or sophisticated weapons that win battles, but smaller and less advanced ones. Put ...
We follow Nader Shah’s rise from Iran’s most powerful warlord to Shah after the Mughan Qurultai of 1736, where he dismantled ...
Nādir Šāh sjah van Iran 1688-1747 (NL-LeOCL)138807345 "By any measure, Nader Shah--founder of the Afsharid Dynasty--ranks as a towering figure in Iranian history. Rising from the humblest of origins, ...
History does not always repeat itself, but it often rhymes with unsettling precision. Few episodes capture this better than the fall of the ...
"Koh-i-Noor! (meaning mountain of light)", Persian invader Nadir Shah is said to have exclaimed. It was 1739, and Nadir Shah, who happened to be the Shah of Iran, had just discovered a magnificent ...