Military of Afsharid Iran
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military-of-afsharid-iran-188-5313644
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Military of Afsharid Iran
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The military forces of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran had their origins in the relatively obscure yet bloody inter-factional violence in Khorasan during the collapse of the Safavid state. The small band of warriors under local warlord Nader Qoli of the Turkoman Afshar tribe in north-east Iran were no more than a few hundred men. Yet at the height of Nader's power as the king of kings, Shahanshah, he commanded an army of 375,000 fighting men which, according to Axworthy, constituted the single most
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Army of the Afsharid Empire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Afsharid_Iran
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2015-10-11T17:14:17Z
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2024-09-08T19:13:12Z
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