Territorial change of Qajar dynasty (Qajar Dynasty)

“Qajar dynasty”(Qajar Dynasty) — appears in this map’s data from AD 1788 to 1923. Its territory was largest in AD 1895 – 1897, at ≈ 1.78 million km².

Territory by period

Outline at its largest extent

Outline of the territory in AD 1895 – 1897 (map drawing). Neighbouring countries are not drawn.

Area and rank by frame

For each frame in which borders change: this country’s territory and its rank by area among the countries that have territory in that frame.

Its highest rank was in AD 1800: number 123 of 7.

Neighbouring countries

In order of the number of frames in which they share a border (a parent state, its colonies and other names of the same country are counted as one group).

• Ottoman Empire — 65 frames
• Tsardom of Russia — 57 frames
• Kingdom of England — 49 frames
• Khanate of Khiva — 46 frames
• Emirate of Afghanistan — 42 frames
• Oman — 29 frames
• Durrani Empire — 21 frames
• Emirate of Bukhara — 11 frames
• Talpur dynasty — 7 frames
• Khanates of the Caucasus — 5 frames
• Kingdom of Georgia — 4 frames
• Zand dynasty — 3 frames
• Durrani dynasty — 2 frames
• Azerbaijan — 2 frames
• Armenia — 2 frames
• Republics of the Soviet Union — 1 frames
• Kingdom of Portugal — 1 frames
• German Empire — 1 frames
• Dutch Republic — 1 frames
• Aceh Sultanate — 1 frames

Territory exchanged with

Computed from changes in territory between frames (only changes of about 20,000 km² or more are counted; these are not actual routes of advance). Top 22 by area.

Preceded and succeeded by

Succeeded by: Pahlavi dynasty

Source: Wikidata (CC0)

Wikipedia summary

The Qajar dynasty (Persian: دودمان قاجار, romanized: Dudemân-e Qâjâr) is a formerly aristocratic Iranian dynasty that gained prominence with the rise of Shahverdi Sultan in the early 16th century as heads of the Turkoman Qajar tribe of the Qizilbash confederacy.

Wikipedia (English) “Qajar dynasty”, introduction (first sentences) · text under CC BY-SA 4.0 · read more on Wikipedia

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