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{{Nation|common_name=Iran|capital=Isfahan|languages=Persian (official)|currency=Toman}}
{{Nation|common_name=Persia|capital=Isfahan|languages=Persian (official)|currency=Toman|flag=Flag_of_Persia.png|largest_city=Tabriz|government_type=Constitutional monarchy|local_name=دولت علیّه ایران|full_name=State of Persia}}


'''Iran''' (Persian: ایران), also known in the West as '''Persia''', is a country located in western Asia. It stretches from the Caucasus and the Oxus river in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, and the Zagros Range in the west to the Khorasani salt deserts of the east.
'''Iran''' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language Persian]: ایران, Armenian: Իրան), also known in the West as '''Persia''', is a country located in western Asia. It stretches from the Caucasus and the Oxus river in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, and the Zagros Range in the west to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Khorasan Khorasan] in the east.

== Etymology ==


== History ==
== History ==
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=== Late Safavid period (1629-1687) ===
=== Late Safavid period (1629-1687) ===


==== English capture of Ormus ====
==== Foreign powers in Persia ====


==== Economic crisis ====
===== English capture of Ormus =====


==== Relations with the Duke of Holstein and the VOC ====
===== The Duke of Holstein-Gottorp =====


=== Rise of the Khilji Pakhtuns (1687-1696) ===
===== Conflict with the EIC & VOC =====


=== Khiljid period (1696-1760) ===
==== Economic crises ====

==== Collapse of the empire ====

=== Khiljid period (1687-1760) ===

==== Rise of the Khilji Pakhtuns ====


==== Mirweis Shah (1696-1731) ====
==== Mirweis Shah (1696-1731) ====
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==== Mahmud Shah (1731-1748) ====
==== Mahmud Shah (1731-1748) ====


==== Regency and downfall (1748-1758) ====
==== Regency era and collapse ====


=== Interregnum (1758-1771) ===
=== Interregnum (1758-1771) ===


==== French invasion of Ormus & Kishma ====
==== French invasion of Ormus ====


==== Coup of 1760 ====
==== Revival of the Qezelbash ====


=== Dareshouri period (1771-) ===
==== Safavid restoration (1765-1771) ====

===== Battle of Naein =====

===== The Coup of 1769 =====

=== Dareshuri period (1771-) ===

==== Classical rule (1771-1814) ====

==== Messianic rebellions of 1818 and clerical massacres ====


== Government and Politics ==
== Government and Politics ==


== Demographics ==
== Demographics ==

==== Ethnicity ====

==== Language ====

==== Religion ====


== Culture ==
== Culture ==

==== Literature and poetry ====

==== Global Persianate culture ====


== Religion ==
== Religion ==

==== Islam ====

==== Christianity ====

===== Armenian Apostolicism =====

==== Zoroastrianism ====

==== Judaism ====

==== Dharmic faiths ====

==== Gnostic and syncretic religions ====

==== New religious movements ====


== See also ==
== See also ==
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