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Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
(16 July 1831 – 1 May 1896), was the
Shah
of
Qajar Iran
from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. He was the son of
Mohammad Shah Qajar
and
Malek Jahān Khānom
and the third longest reigning monarch in Iranian history after
Shapur II
of the
Sassanid dynasty
and
Tahmasp I
of the
Safavid dynasty
. He was the first modern Persian monarch who formally visited Europe and also wrote his memoirs.
Photograph credit:
Nadar
; restored by
Adam Cuerden
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