Enlightenment · Middle East · War
1729
Nader Khan Drives the Afghans from Persia
January 1, 1729
A tribal chieftain from Khorasan, Nader Khan Afshar took service with the exiled Safavid claimant Tahmasp and began a campaign that would expel the Ghilzai Afghans from Isfahan. A new soldier of fortune had emerged. Within six years he would make himself shah. Persia's long convalescence would be his, and his alone.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.