Fath-Ali Khan Afshar

Fath-Ali Khan Afshar (Persian: فتحعلی خان افشار), was a chieftain from the Afshar tribe of Urmia, and one of the four contenders for supremacy in Iran between 1751–1763. He was ultimately defeated and captured in February 1763 by one of the contenders, the Zand ruler Karim Khan Zand (r. 1751–1779). The latter had Fath-Ali Khan executed the following year, in July 1764.

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