Nader Shah The Afshar Turkmen

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Nāder Shāh Afshār (Persian: نادر شاه افشار; also known
as Nāder Qoli Beg - نادر قلی بیگ or Tahmāsp Qoli
Khān - تهماسپ قل)

The Afjbars are a Turcoman
Tribe, divided into two or
three Clans.

Source:
THE HISTORY OF NADIR
SHAH Formerly called
Thamas Kuli Khan The
Prefent Emperor of Persia
James Fraser - 1742

"His father was of lowly but respectable status, a herdsman of the
Afshar tribe ... The Qereqlu Afshars to whom Nader's father
belonged were a semi-nomadic Turcoman tribe settled in
Khorasan in north-eastern Iran ... The tribes of Khorasan were for
the most part ethnically distinct from the Persian-speaking
population, speaking Turkic or Kurdish languages. Nader's mother
tongue was a dialect of the language group spoken by the Turkic
tribes of Iran and Central Asia, and he would have quickly learned
Persian, the language of high culture and the cities as he grew
older. But the Turkic language was always his preferred everyday
speech, unless he was dealing with someone who knew only
Persian."
Source:
Michael Axworthy's biography of Nader, The Sword of Persia (I.B.
Tauris, 2006), p.17-19:


We ourselves are of a Turkoman family," says
Nadir in one of his letters, " and Mahomed
Shah is a Turkoman, and the lineal descendant
of the noble house of Gurgan." The tribe of
Atfshar, to which Nadir belonged, was one of
the seven Turkish tribes distinguished by the
name of Kuzcl bashee The causes which led to
his invasion of India were not groundless the
monarch had given protection to the fugitive
AfFghans and had treated Nadir's complaints
with contempt

Source:
Persia and China: Volym 1

Josiah Conder - 1827


Nadir Shah came from a Turcoman tribe long
established in northeastern Iran.

Source:
Magill's Guide to Military History: Volym 3

John Powell - 2001

Persian usurper Nadir Shah, himself of
Turkmen blood of the Afshar clan, but
Persianized.

Source:
Soviet empire: the Turks of Central Asia
and Stalinism

Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe - 1953

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