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The Shah of Persia.

The visit of the Shah of Persia to Eur.
ope has given a new interest to the history
Of his family and country The story OF
the Persian Monarchy has been long the
study of the most eminent writer's. The
researches of the present century have
led to an almost new history Of the great
Asiatic States of antiquity, and in this re-
Mobilization there is much that relates to
Persia. When royal edict is issued, il
is generally prefaced with recital of the
Shahs dignities, such as the ssKeblih
alem, the sovereign whose elevation vies
with that of the planet Saturn, to whom
the sun serves for a banner, whose SPLEEN
dor equals that Of the heavens, whose
armies are more numerous than the stars,
whose greatness is like that of Jemschid,
and whose muniicence is like that of
Darius; the sovereign who Is the inherit
or of the throne of the Kaianians, Nasr-
ed-din Shah, King of Kings, the son of
Kings, the great and mighty and absolute
Emperor of Persia"
The individual who is thus particularly
described is the fourth monarch of his
immediate family, though claiming an in
heritance through his predecessors back
to the remotest time. The Chaldean En-
pire, it is claimed, was founded by MINI
rod, son of Cush, the grandson of
Noah. The family of the present
Shah claim descent from
Noah, through Japheth. The Median and
Persian States existed before the Assyrian
Monarchy, and were, perhaps, contempor-
aneous With Chaldea. The supposed
founder of the Persian Monarchy was
Achemenes, somewhere about B. G. ESQ.,
Persia was then tributary to Media. Cam
bysses, of Persia, who died B. G. 558, was
married to a daughter of Astyages, the
King of Medea; and his son, Cyrus the
Great, born about B. G. 592 overthrow the
Medean Empire, which then included
Assyria. Cyrus conquered Babylon and
founded the Persian Empire. He died B.
G. 522. His family ruled the Persian EN-
pre- until it's conquest in B. G. 321 by AL
exander the Great. In the division of the
Empire of Alexander among his Generals,
Seleucus Nicator obtained Babyloni
Media, Persia and Parthia, and founded
the Syrian Kingdom. In B. c. 246, Par
thia became an independent kingdom, and
century later conquered Persia In A.
d. 226, the Persians revolted, and the Per
sian Monarchy was re-established under
the Sarsanida family. This dynasty con-
tinued to rule in Persia until A. D. 641,
when the the Saracens of Turkeystan, one
of the numerous families passing under
the general name of Turks, conquered the
country. Persia during its Independent
state had produced several monarchs of
distinction. Among these was Chosroes
II. the Great, who reigned from 531 to
$50. In 1853, Genghis Khan, of the
Mongol Tartars, included Persia in his
conquest, and his descendants ruled In
Persia for several generations. They
were succeeded by the family Tamerlane,
and by Turcoman rulers, and finally, in
1900, fshmael, descendant of the Sheik
Suffice induced a revolt, and established
the Safaveik dynasty. The first OF these,
Ismael, was the son of a Kajar mother.
The Kajar tribes preserved their tribal
organization, under their own Khans, or
Chiefs or Princes, and in 1922 Faith Ali
Khan became Chief of all the Kajar tribes
in Persia, and the same year he rescued
Ispahan from a siege by the Affghans.
Tie jealousy of the mobiles drove the
Kajar Chief into retirement, and soon