Qajar dynasty
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The Qajar dynasty was an Iranian dynasty founded by Mohammad Khan of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman Qajar tribe.
Feyzullah Mirza Qajar
Image: Mohammad Khan Qajari
Image: Portrait of Fath Ali Shah Standing
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
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Naser al-Din Shah Qajar was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. He was the son of Mohammad Shah Qajar and Malek Jahan Khanom and the third longest reigning monarch in Iranian history after Shapur II of the Sassanid dynasty and Tahmasp I of the Safavid dynasty. Nasser al-Din Shah had sovereign power for close to 51 years.
Naser al-Din Shah by Abul Hasan Ghaffari, 1859
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, King of Persia. Photography by Nadar in 1881
The Shah on his European tour, seated with British and Russian royalty in the Royal Albert Hall, London