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PERSIAN DYNASTIES & RULERS
MEDIAN DYNASTY (728- 550 BCE)
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ACHAEMENID DYNASTY (ca. 650- 330 BCE)
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MACEDONIAN DYNASTY (330- 310 BCE)
Foreign rulers
Alexander the Great 330- 323
Philip 3 323- 317
Alexander 4
Official co-ruler since 323		 317- 310
SELEUCID DYNASTY (312- 164 BCE)
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PARTHIAN DYNASTY (246 BCE- 224 CE)
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SASSANID DYNASTY (224- 651)
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SELJUQ DYNASTY (1029- 1194)
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ILKHANATE (1256- 1343)
Hülegü 1256- 1265
Abaqa 1265- 1281
Tegüder 1281- 1284
Arghun 1284- 1291
Gaikhatu 1291- 1295
Baidu 1295
Ghazan 1295- 1304
Öljeitü 1304- 1316
Abu Said 1316- 1335
Arpa Keun 1335- 1336
Musa 1336- 1337
Muhammad 1337- 1338
Persia divided (1343- 1380)
TIMURID DYNASTY (1380- 1449)
Timur Lenk 1380- 1405
Shah Rukh 1405- 1447
Ulugh Beg 1447- 1449
Persia divided (1449- 1501)
SAFAVID DYNASTY (1501- 1736)
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NON-DYNASTIES (1736- 1794)
Nadir Shah 1736- 1749
Karim Khan 1749- 1794
QAJAR DYNASTY (1794- 1925)
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar 1794- 1797
Fath Ali Shah 1797- 1834
Mhammed Shah 1834- 1848
Nasser ad-Din Shah 1848- 1896
Mozzafar ad-Din Shah 1896- 1907
Mohammad Ali Shah 1907- 1909
Ahmad Shah 1909- 1925
PAHLAVI DYNASTY (1925- 1979)
Reza Shah Pahlavi 1925- 1941
Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi 1941- 1979
The name "Persia" seized to be used in 1935, and replaced with "Iran".
Name for the Iranian plateau, comprising today's Iran and Afghanistan. The name came from an area in southern Iran called Persia, but came to be used for the larger area with the expansion performed by the Greeks in the last centuries BCE.
There were, and are, several peoples living in this area, all considering themselves as Iranians. From the earliest sources we know that in the 3rd millenium BCE, the following people lived here: In the south the Elamites; north of them the Kassites; in the northwestern parts of today's Iran lived the Manneans; south of the Caspian Sea lived the Caspians. We know little of what relationship there were between these peoples, and we know little of their languages.
From the 2nd millenium BCE we hear of the Iranians invading from the north. It is in the 1st millenium BCE that a people called Persians appear in the south, these were descendants of the Aryans.
The name Persia was used up until 1935, when there came a demand to change from Persia considered to be a Western name into the name used by people of the region: Iran. Even if the people of Persia can be divided, they consider themselves more or less as one racial entity, the different peoples are often set apart due to geography and culture. The peoples today often overlap one another, especially is this true in major cities. Azeris live in the northwestern corner; Kurds along the border to Turkey and Iran; Lur live in the central western Iran; south of the Lur live the Bakhtiari; Persians live in the central and southern Iran; Baloch live in southeastern Iran, as well as in southwestern Pakistan; Pathans live in southern Afghanistan; Tadchiks live in northern Afghanistan; as well as Uzbeks, Turcomans and Kygyzians live in northeastern Afghanistan.

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