Treaty
treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Afsharid Iran
Treaty of Kerden (Turkish: Kerden Antlaşması, Persian: عهدنامه گردان) was signed between the Ottoman Empire and Afsharid Iran on 4 September 1746. It concluded the Ottoman–Persian War (1743–1746).
Fetching the article from Wikipedia…
Text from the Wikipedia article “Treaty of Kerden”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Treaty of Kerden (Turkish: Kerden Antlaşması, Persian: عهدنامه گردان) was signed between the Ottoman Empire and Afsharid Iran on 4 September 1746. It concluded the Ottoman–Persian War (1743–1746).
During the last years of the Safavid dynasty in Iran, the Ottomans were able to annex most of the Caucasus and western Iran, due to hereditary strife, civil unrest and total chaos. Meanwhile, the Afghans were able to annex parts of Khorasan. The shah had to appoint Nader, an Iranian Afshar Turkoman warlord, as his commander in chief.
Under Nader's commandship, Iran was able to regain most of its losses. After the victories, Nader was able to seize the throne and, in 1736, establish the Afsharid dynasty, which would last until 1796. Nader Shah was planning to found another great Persian empire, stretching from the Indus to the Bosphorus, as in the ancient times.
After reconquering former territories of Iran, he further tried to annex the eastern territories of the Ottoman Empire (eastern Anatolia and Iraq). He also proposed to reconcile the two major sects of Islam (the Ottoman dynasty was of Sunni faith and most Iranians were of Twelver Shia faith). He planned to force the Ottoman Empire, the most powerful Sunni state, to accept Twelver Shia Islam as a fifth legal school of jurisprudence of Sunni Islam.
The treaty was signed in Kerden (a location near Qazvin, Iran). The representatives were Hasan Ali Haji (Afsharid side) and Mustafa Nazif (Ottoman side).
Text from the Wikipedia article “Treaty of Kerden”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.