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ANGLO-AFGHAN RELATIONS
J. A. Norris
a survey from the earliest times to the death of the last Bārakzay ruler in 1357 Š./1978.
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ANGLO-AFGHAN TREATY OF 1905
J. A. Norris
an agreement pertaining to British control of Afghan foreign policy and related matters.
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ANGLO-AFGHAN TREATY OF 1921
L. W. Adamec
the outcome of peace negotiations following the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
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ANGLO-AFGHAN WARS
J. A. Norris, L. W. Adamec
First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42), Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80), Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919).
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ANGLO-IRANIAN AGREEMENT
Cross-Reference
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ANGLO-IRANIAN RELATIONS
Multiple Authors
This series of articles covers relations between England and Iran from the Safavid to the Pahlavi periods.
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ANGLO-IRANIAN RELATIONS i. Safavid to Zand Periods
R. W. Ferrier
English interest in Persia during this period is almost exclusively concerned with trade and has almost nothing to do with political relations. Relations arose as the result of a failure to trade eastwards through Russia and Central Asia in the mid-16th century by merchants of the Russia Company, which, though formed in London on 26 February 1555, had already dispatched their first voyage of three ships by the northeastern route round Russia on 18 May 1553.
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ANGLO-IRANIAN RELATIONS ii. Qajar period
F. Kazemzadeh
Before the 19th century Anglo-Iranian relations were sporadic. Periods of engagement alternated with decades of disengagement. After the death of Karīm Khan Zand (1193/1779) contacts between Britain and Iran diminished and were maintained with regularity only in the Persian Gulf as the center of government authority moved north.
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ANGLO-IRANIAN RELATIONS iii. Pahlavi period
R. W. Ferrier
For most of the 20th century relations have been dominated politically by the modernization and revival of Iran under the stimulus of Reżā Shah and his son and successor Moḥammad Reżā Shah, strategically by Iran’s proximity to the Soviet Union, and economically by Iranian oil.
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ANGLO-IRANIAN WAR
Cross-Reference
See ANGLO-PERSIAN WAR.