Afghanistan has 34 provinces, and Kandahar is one of them. The Persian Achaemenid dynasty couldnt go further than Kandahar, wrote Stephen Turner an American historian. Historians and scholars know very little about the (Persian Achaemenid dynasty). Because they did not write their history. Iran did not have a government for more than a thousand years, according to Bahram Moshiri an historian. Shah Mahmud Hotaki (شاہ محمود ہوتکی), was an Afghan ruler of the Hotaki dynasty who defeated and overthrew the Safavid dynasty of Iran (سلسلهٔ صفويان) to become the king of Persia in 1722. The Afghans then defeated a twice as large Persian army that had been dispatched from Isfahan (capital of the Safavids), one which included Qizilbash and Georgian troops. the Hotaki dynasty ruled over a wide area which is now Iran, and north western Pakistan. Mirwais son Mahmud. In 1720, Mahmuds Afghan forces crossed the deserts of Sistan and captured Kerman. His plan was to conquer the Persian capital, Isfahan. After defeating the Persian army at the Battle of Gulnabad on March 8, 1722 he proceeded to and sacked the city of Isfahan. On October 23, 1722, Sultan Husayn abdicated and acknowledged Mahmud as the new Shah (King of Persia). Majority of the Persian people, however, rejected the Afghan regime as usurping. According to Professor Richard Frye the Safavids were of Azerbaijani (Turkic) origin. The Afsharids (افشاریان) were members of a Khorasani, dynasty of Turkic origin, from Khorasan. Nader Shah of Khorasan, was a (Turkic origin). from Khorasan.
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