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" Army of Iran, since 1800 - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Cronin, Stephanie
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English
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1060697
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ALei1094
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Cronin, Stephanie
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Army of Iran, since 1800 - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Cronin, Stephanie
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,861 words)
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At the beginning of the Qājār period, Iran possessed no modern standing army , although the shah retained a personal tribal bodyguard and a corps of slave horsemen. In military conflicts, such as that with Russia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the shah relied on untrained irregulars raised by tribal khān s, landlords, and provincial governors. Troops so mobilised were fighting for plunder and immediately disbanded upon the end of campaigning. In 1803, the loss of Georgia, an Iranian vassal state, to Russia convinced the valī ʿahd (heir
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Islam.
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ALei1094.pdf
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