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2 unusual facts about Sardari


Sardari

Abdol Hossein Sardari, Iranian diplomat, who saved Jews from the holocaust

Sardar Iravani, Sardār-e Īravānī, title of governor of Yerevan


Abdol Hossein Sardari

Zero Degree Turn (Madare sefr darajeh), a popular Iranian TV series (2007), was loosely based on Sardari's actions in Paris.

Ranjit Singh

In 1802 Ranjit Singh took Amritsar from the Bhangi Sardari and followed this in 1807, after a month of fierce fighting, with the conquest of Kasur from the Afghan chief Qutb ud-Din.

Sardar Iravani

Sardār-e Īravānī was the title of Hossein Khan Sardar Qajar (1740-1830) and his brother Hasan Khan Qajar, the last governor of Eravan (Iravan, Jerevan, Yerevan) 1807-28, the son of Mohammad Khan Qajar (Amir Kabir) uncle of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar the founder of Qajar Dynasty in Persia and also the ancestor of family Sardari Iravani, an old Persian Qajar family.


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