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Sultan Ahmad Shah, born January 20, 1898 (27th Shaban 1315), succeeded his father, Muhammad Ali Shah (who abdicated) July 16, 1909, under regency of Ali Reza Khan, Azud el Mulk, chief of the Kajar tribe Azud el Mulk, the Regent, died September 22, 1910, and on the 25th of the same month the National Council elected Abu’l Kassim Khan, Nasser el Mulk, who was then in Europe, as his successor. The Regent arrived in Teheran on February 8, 1911.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Persia
1. Official Publications
Blue Books.—Affairs of Persia, December 1906, to November, 1908. Persia, No. 1, 1909.—Continuation of Persia, No. 1. Persia, No. 2, 1909.—Continuation of Persia, No. 2. Persia, No. 1, 1910.
Eastern Persia: an Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870–72. 2 vols. 1876.
Treaty Series, No. 10, 1903. This gives the Commercial Convention of May 27, 1903, The customs tariff is also given in the Board of Trade Journal (No. 325) for February 19, 1903, and in United States Consular Reports (No. 273) for June, 1903. Treaty series No. 34. Convention with Russia relating to Persia, Afghanistan, and Thibet, 1907.
Foreign Office Reports. [On the trade of Bushire, Lingah, Bunder Abbas, Mohammerah and other ports in the Persian Gulf. On Kermânshah. On the trade of Resht, and of Meshed.] Annual Series. London.
2. Non-Official Publications
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Keltie, J.S. (1911). Persia. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270404_44
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