Agha Muhammad Khan
| Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar آقا محمد خان قاجار |
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Portrait of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, 1820.
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Shahanshah of Iran
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| Reign | 1789 – 17 June 1797 | ||||||||
| Coronation | March 1796 | ||||||||
| Successor | Fath-Ali Shah Qajar | ||||||||
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| Born | 14 March 1742 Astarabad, Iran |
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| Died | 17 June 1797 (aged 55) Shusha, Iran |
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| Burial | Najaf | ||||||||
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| Dynasty | Qajar dynasty | ||||||||
| Father | Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar | ||||||||
| Mother | Jeeran Khanum | ||||||||
| Religion | Twelver Shia Islam | ||||||||
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Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (Persian: آقا محمد خان قاجار, translit. Āghā Mohammad Khān-e Qājār; 1742–1797), also known by his regnal name of Agha Mohammad Shah (آقا محمد شاه), was the founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, ruling from 1789 to 1797 as king (shah). He was originally chieftain of the Qoyunlu branch of the Qajar tribe. In 1789, Agha Mohammad Khan was enthroned as the king of Iran, but was not officially crowned as its king until March 1796. On 17 June 1797 Agha Mohammad Khan was assassinated, and was succeeded by his nephew, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.
Agha Mohammad Khan's reign is noted for the reemergence of a centrally led and united Iran. Following the death of Nader Shah (d. 1747), many of the Iranian territories in the Caucasus that had been ruled by the various subsequent Iranian dynasties since 1501, today comprising Georgia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia had broken apart into various Caucasian khanates or had declared de facto independence as in Georgia's case. After 48 years, they were all reconquered by Agha Mohammad Khan. Some of his reconquests were, even for their time, exceptionally cruel, such as his re-subjugation of Georgia, where he sacked the capital Tbilisi, massacred many of its inhabitants, and moved some 15,000 Georgian captives back to mainland Iran.
Albeit Agha Mohammad Khan is noted for his heavily cruel and rapacious behaviour, his 18 years of determined conquest and consolidation resulted in Iran finally becoming unified once more, which thus made the country able to withstand large difficulties that occurred in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Agha Mohammad Khan is also noted for moving the capital to Tehran, where it still stands as of today.
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