List of kings of Persia

The following is a comprehensive list of all Persian Empires and their rulers:

Before Islam

Elamite Empire, 2700-660 BC

The Elamites were a people located in Susa, in what is now Khuzestan province. Their language was neither Semitic nor Aryan, and they were the geographic precursors of the Persian/Median empire that later appeared. Some have offered evidence for a linguistic kinship between Elamite and the modern Dravidian languages of Southern India, but this is not universally accepted. The proto-Elamites lived even as far back as 7,500 years ago in Iran. See remains here. Avan Dynasty (precise dates unknown) Simash Dynasty (precise dates unknown) Eparti Dynasty (precise dates unknown) Igehalkid Dynasty (c. 1350 - c. 1200) Shutrukid Dynasty (c. 1205 - c. 1100) Late Elam Dynasty (743 - 644)

Jiroft (Aratta?) Kingdom, (c. 2500 BC)

The recent archeological findings at Jiroft have uncovered an "independent, bronze age, civilization with its own architecture and language" that have led some archeologists to speculate it to be the remains of the lost Aratta Kingdom. 1

Median Dynasty

The Medes were an Iranian people. The Persians, a closely related and subject people, revolted against the Median empire during the 6th century BC.

Achaemenid dynasty

The epigraphic evidence for the rulers before Cyrus the Great is highly suspect, and often considered to have been invented by Darius I.

Greco-Macedonian Hellenistic rulers

The Macedonian royal Argead Dynasty

Seleucid dynasty Basileis, major diadochoi

(The Seleucid Dynasty gradually lost control of Persia. In 253, the Arsacid Dynasty established itself in Parthia. The Parthians gradually expanded their control, until by the mid 2nd century BC, the Seleucids had completely lost control of Persia. There were more Seleucid rulers of Syria and, for a time, Babylonia, after Antiochus IV, but none had any effective power in Persia).

Parthian dynasty

There were various regional client dynasties, oten with significant autonomy

Sassanid dynasty, Shahanshahs, AD 224-651

Royal dynasties since the advent of Islam in Iran

Arab caliphs rule

All Persian provinces fell under The Arabic Caliphate from 661 to 867. divided, 867-1029

Taherids in Khorasan, 821-872

Alavids, 864-928

Ziyarid Amirs, 928-1043

Āl-i Buyeh (also written Buyyids or Buwahids), Tribal Shahanshs, Sultans, & Amirs, 932-1056

Diylamid Amirs of Fars

Diylamids of Khuzestan and Kerman

Diylamids of Rey, [sultanate] Isfahan, and [sultanate/amirate] Hamedan

Saffarid Amirs, 861-1002, in Seistan and beyond

Samanids, proto-Tadjik Amirs, 892-998

Ghaznavid Sultans, 997-1186

Seljuk Turkic Sultans, 1029-1194

divided, 1194-1256

Khwarazm(id) Shahs, 1096-1230

An empire built from Azerbaidjan, covering part of Iran and neighbouring Central Asia Eliminated for good by the Mongol horde

Ilkhanate, pagan Mongol horde, 1256-1343, nominally subject to the Great Khan)

(''Ilkhan'' means governor of an il, i.e. province) divided, 1343-1380

Muzaffarid Dynasty, Amirs 1314-1393

Timurid dynasty 1380-1449

divided, 1449-1502:

Black Sheep (Kara qoyunlu), Turcoman Horde, emirate, 13..?78-15??

Uzbeks?

White Sheep (Aqqoyunlu), Turcoman Horde, emirate, 1378-1508

Uzbeks?

Safavid dynasty, Shahs 1502-1736

Afsharid dynasty, Shahs, 1736-1749

Zand dynasty, Shahs, 1750-1794

Qajar dynasty, Shahs, 1796-1925

Pahlavi dynasty, modern Shahs, 1925-1979

See also

Persia, List of kings of Category:Persian history Category:Iranian history Category:Iranian peoples nl:Lijst van koningen van Perzië no:Liste over konger i Persia pl:Władcy Persji sl:seznam perzijskih kraljev fi:Luettelo Persian kuninkaista zh:伊朗君主列表

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