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Khosrow Khan Gorji

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109: 105:. During his governorship of the province, he ordered the establishment of many buildings, which still survive today in Gilan. He also had good relations with lower classes of the region, but had bad relations with the local rulers of the province. This soon resulted in a revolt in 1819, and Khosrow was shortly deprived of his governorship of the region. Khosrow Khan 177:. Khosrow aided Mohammad, who eventually managed to emerge victorious during the struggle, and crowned himself as the new shah of Iran, taking the dynastic name of "Mohammad Shah Qajar". Khosrow was then appointed as the governor of Isfahan as an award for his aid. On 22 October 1847, Khosrow was appointed as the governor of 108: 116:
leaving the king's house, followed by Schazahdèh Sadrat-Dooulèh and the eunuch Kosrow-Khan, and preceded by the king's second son, accompanied by his menin and his tutor. He is greeted by the great master of ceremonies
283: 293: 74:, Khosrow's original name was Andre Ghaytmazeants, and like his father, was a Christian, which he remained until his late-teens, where he converted to 303: 278: 137:, a place situated between the Iranian-Ottoman borders. Khosrow successfully managed to conquer the place, and was in 1824, appointed by the Qajar 94:, as the former was attempting to conquer Irans northern territories. However, he was eventually captured by an Iranian army in 1804 near 308: 192:, but instead sent a representative to the province, and stayed during the rest of his life in Tehran, where he died on 27 July 1857. 121:, former ambassador to Saint Petersburg and London, near whom stands Prince Kéikhobade-Mirzá (one of the Shah's brothers. Sketched by 313: 122: 298: 82:
origin or descent, this was not the case with Khosrow Khan. During his early life, he participated in the expedition of the
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and assumed the name "Khosrow Khan Gorji". Even though the surname "Gorji" in Persian usually refers to a person of ethnic
91: 71: 185:. However, his governorship of Kurdistan was brief, and lasted only one year, the same year which Mohammad Shah died. 118: 273: 288: 169:
Fath-Ali Shah later died in 1834, which resulted in a struggle for the Qajar throne between his two sons
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Later in 1822/3, Khosrow was sent at the head of an army consisting of
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On 23 February 1815, Khosrow was appointed as the governor of
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Converts to Shia Islam from the Armenian Apostolic Church
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Index

Persian
Tbilisi
Tehran
eunuch
Armenian
Qajar Iran
Christian
Armenian
Tbilisi
Georgia
Islam
Georgian
Russian
Pavel Tsitsianov
Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813
Yerevan
Gilan

prime minister
Mirza-Aboul-by Hassan-Khan
Alexey Saltykov
Bakhtiaris
Mandali
shah
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
vizier
Sayf ol-Dowleh
Isfahan
Yusef Khan-e Gorji
Manouchehr Khan Gorji

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