Son of Hossein Khan Moqaddam Maraqe’I, Hajj Ali Khan Hajeboddowleh served at Mohammad Mirza, FathAli Shah’s crown prince’s court when he was 10 years old. When Mohammad Shah came to the throne...

At the end of the first half of the twelfth century AH (about 17th century), Afshar tribe in Urumiah, the Donboli tribe in Khoy, Moqaddam in Maragheh, Sheqaqi in the Sarab, and Shahsavan in Ardabil...

Establishment and activities of the Russian loan bank was granted by Nasseraddin Shah to a Tsarist Russian subject, Jacques Polyakov, (21st May 1890). The period of the grant was 75 years. After a few years...

Qajar Iran lacked any regular and progressive army. No specific rules and regulations were developed for military service. Iranian army was characterized by total chaos and disarray. No age limit was specified...

One of the items that show obvious link of nomadic life with Iranian national identity is the deep influence of Iranian culture and literature on the tribes. It is evident that language and literature...

Constitutional revolution was formed against the despotic Qajar system and its authoritarian administration. Following that, parliamentary procedure was started with the establishment of the National...

The first president of the first Constitutional Assembly, was Morteza Qoli khan Sani’oddowleh. He held the office from 6th Oct. 1906 to 6th Sep. 1907. After him, Mirza Mahmud Khan Ehteshamossaltaneh Qajar Davallu...

With the coming of the Ghaznavis and the subsequent Seljuk conquest across the country, we are faced with gradually concentrated power and the formation of strong hereditary monarchy that takes all worldly...

Amir Abbas Hoveyda was the Minister of Finance in Hassan Ali Mansour’s cabinet from 8 March 1964 to 21 Jan. 1965. In the last months of Mansur’s Cabinet, a handwritten report dated August 28 1964...

In 1933, the records of the contract were burned because of what Shah called it a colonial contract. This action was followed by extra British government pressure on Iran and it was re-imposed on...

After meeting with Soviet leaders in Moscow, then U.S. president Richard Nixon, along with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger arrived in Tehran, May 31, 1972 and met with the Shah and...

About the year 1891, in Sorkhab neighborhood of Tabriz, a boy was born who was named MohammadTaghi. His father, major MohammadBagher Khan Pessian of Kurdish tribes, and his mother...

Status of women in this period is defined with a look to the impacts of the society. In this socio political situation, the life of women were largely restricted. However, some of them were involved in...