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}}The '''Qajar dynasty''' ({{lang-fa|دودمان قاجار}}){{efn|Also romanized as ''Ghajar'', ''Kadjar'', ''Qachar'' etc.}} (1789–1925) was an [[Iran|Iranian]]<ref>{{harvnb|Amanat|1997|p=2}}: "In the 126 years between the fall of the Safavid state in 1722 and the accession of Nasir al-Din Shah, the Qajars evolved from a shepherd-warrior tribe with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty with all the trappings of a Perso-Islamic monarchy."</ref> dynasty founded by [[Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar|Mohammad Khan]] ({{reign|1789|1797}}) of the Qoyunlu clan of the [[Turkoman (ethnonym)|Turkoman]]{{Sfn|Sümer|1978}} [[Qajars (tribe)|Qajar tribe]].
The dynasty's effective rule in Iran ended in 1925 when Iran's ''[[National Consultative Assembly|Majlis]]'', convening as a constituent assembly on 12 December 1925, declared [[Reza Shah]], a former brigadier-general of the [[Persian Cossack Brigade]], as the new ''[[shah]]'' of the Imperial State of Persia.
== List of Qajar monarchs ==
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