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    Cambridge to hold conference on Qajar Persia

    Mehr News Agency, Iran
    May 2 2005

    TEHRAN, May 2 (MNA) -- The International Qajar Studies Association
    (IQSA) will be holding a conference entitled "War and Peace in Qajar
    Persia: Implications Past and Present" on July 15 and 16 at Cambridge
    University.

    This conference, by focusing on the historical and geopolitical
    interactions between Western strategic interests and those of Iran
    and the larger Persian Gulf, will offer new and critical historical
    insight on the policies and strategies already in play in the region
    and how they relate to current security and energy concerns.

    Peter Avery will give the opening speech at Cambridge University's
    Center of International Studies, and several Iranian and foreign
    scholars will be presenting research papers.

    "Military Changes during the Qajar Era" by Stephanie Cronin, "The
    Uprising of Saroddulleh" by Mansureh Ettehadiyeh, "The Problem of Oil"
    by Rokhsareh Farman-Farmayan, "Borders: Iran, Afghanistan, Russia,
    and the Ottoman Empire" by Firuzeh Kashani Sabet, and "The Politics
    of Napoleon in Iran" by Irene Natchkebia are some of the lectures
    scheduled to be delivered during the conference.

    In 1794, Agha Mohammad Khan defeated numerous rivals and brought all
    of Iran under his rule, establishing the Qajar dynasty.

    The Qajars were a Turkic tribe that held ancestral lands in present-day
    Azerbaijan, which then was part of Iran. Agha Mohammad established
    his capital at Tehran, a village near the ruins of the ancient city
    of Ray (now Shahr-e Rey).

    Agha Mohammad's nephew and successor, Fat'h Ali Shah, ruled from 1797
    to 1834. Under Fat'h Ali Shah, Iran went to war against Russia. Iran
    suffered major military defeats during the war. Under the terms of
    the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813, Iran recognized Russia's annexation
    of Georgia and ceded to Russia most of the north Caucasus region.

    A second war with Russia in the 1820s ended even more disastrously
    for Iran, which in 1828 was forced to sign the Treaty of Turkmanchai
    acknowledging Russian sovereignty over the entire area north of the
    Aras River (territory comprising present-day Armenia and Azerbaijan).
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