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.]] The Afsharids ( of Turkic origin that ruled Persia in the 18th Century and were based in Khorasan . At this time the Persian empire reached it's greatest extend since Sassanian Empire . The dynasty was born with Nadir Shah , who proclaimed himself the Shah Of Iran in 1736 . Soon aftwards he waged a war against the Afghans and captured Kandahar , the home of the Ghilizai Afghans. In 1738 he invaded India , massacred most of the population of Delhi and in a single campaign captured an incredible wealth, including the legendary Peacock Throne and the Koh-i-Noor diamond. The plunder seized from India was so rich that Nadir stopped taxation in Iran for a period of three years, following his triumphant return. He seems to have continued a career of conquest for lack of anything better to do. He made Mashad his capital and - apparently for the sake of conciliating the Afghans - favored his Sunni subjects at the expense of the Shi'a s. A despotic ruler, he was assassinated in 1747, and for the next fifty years Iranian history is well nigh unintelligible. There was in essence a three-sided struggle between the descendants of Nader Shah, the Zand Dynasty and the Qajar s. For much of the time, Shahrokh, grandson both of Nader and Shah Hossein, remained nominally on the throne at Mashad , but, blinded and intermittently imprisoned, he exercised no effective power. LIST OF AFSHARID MONARCHS
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