Unification of Iran (1779–1796)

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| map = Qajar dynasty (greatest extent).svg

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| image = Defeat of Lutf ‘Ali Khan Zand by (Agha) Muhammad Shah; the city of Shiraz in the background. Folio from the Shahinshahnama of Fath 'Ali Khan Saba, dated 1810.jpg

| caption = Agha Mohammad Khan’s victory over the troops of Lotf Ali Khan, Shiraz 1791. Folio from the Shahanshahnameh of Fath-Ali Khan Saba.

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| location = Iran

| map_caption = Iran in 1797, at the end of the reign of Agha Mohammad Khan

| date = 1779-1796

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The Unification of Iran (1779–1796), also known as the Reunification of Iran{{Cite web |title=The Reunification of Iran and the Reign of Aqa Muhammad Shah Qajar {{!}} British Institute of Persian Studies |url=https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/reunification-of-iran/#:~:text=The%20Reunification%20of%20Iran%20and%20the%20Reign%20of%20Aqa%20Muhammad%20Shah%20Qajar,-with%20Maziar%20Behrooz&text=After%20a%20difficult%20century%20of,Aqa%20Muhammad%20Shah%20in%201796. |access-date=2025-01-22 |language=en-GB}} was a series of battles led by Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar{{Cite book |last=Fasāʹī |first=Ḥasan ibn Ḥasan |title=History of Persia under Qajar rule |last2=Busse |first2=Heribert |date=1972 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-03197-4 |series=UNESCO collection of representative works: Persian heritage series |location=New York |language=en, fa}}{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge history of Iran. 7: From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic / ed. by Peter Avery |date=1991 |publisher=Cambridge Univ. Pr |isbn=978-0-521-20095-0 |editor-last=Avery |editor-first=Peter |edition=4. print |location=Cambridge}} which led to the reunification of Iran, which was previously divided into several Iranian and non-Iranian states since the division of the Afsharid Empire.{{Cite book |title=Iranian-Russian encounters: empires and revolutions since 1800 |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-62433-6 |editor-last=Cronin |editor-first=Stephanie |series=Iranian studies |location=Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y}}{{Cite journal |last=Leff |first=Carol Skalnik |date=June 1996 |title=Marco Buttino, ed., In A Collapsing Empire: Underdevelopment, Ethnic Conflicts and Nationalism in the Soviet Union. Milan: Feltrinelli Editore, 1993, Annali, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, Vol. 28 |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/s009059920000355x |journal=Nationalities Papers |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=347–349 |doi=10.1017/s009059920000355x |issn=0090-5992|url-access=subscription }} It compromises the dissolution of Zand Iran and Afsharid Khorasan, overthrown in 1794 and 1796 respectively; the re-assertion of Iranian sovereignty over the Tabriz, Ardabil, Baku, Derbent, Erivan, Ganja, Javad, Shirvan, Karabakh, Nakhchivan, Quba, Shaki and Talysh Khanates; and the punitive campaign against Iran's Georgian subjects. These events ultimately ensured that the newly united Iran would be ruled by the Qajar dynasty, thus the Qajar conquest.{{History of Iran}}

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