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Peacock Throne. The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his court. The Peacock Throne (Hindustani: Mayūrāsana, Sanskrit: मयूरासन, Urdu: تخت طاؤس, Persian: تخت طاووس, Takht-i Tāvūs) was the imperial throne of Hindustan. The throne is named after the dancing peacocks at its rear and was the seat of the Mughal emperors ...
Sun Throne. The Sun Throne (Persian: تخت خورشید, romanized: Takht-e Khurshīd) is the imperial throne of Iran. It has its name after a radiant sun disk on the headboard. The throne has the shape of a platform, similar to the Marble Throne in Golestan Palace. The Naderi Throne was constructed later and has the appearance of a chair.
Another of the stones captured along with the Peacock throne was the world’s largest pink diamond, the Daria-i-Noor — now owned by the Iranian government. The Hope Diamond, perhaps the world ...
Various reports about the Peacock Throne describe jewels and the Koh-i-Noor was said to be part of that throne. Nader Shah- The Koh-i-Noor goes to Iran. The chapter tells the story of Nader Shah and his invasion of the Mughal empire. In 1739, he took the Peacock Throne, looted the Mughal treasury
Nader Shah Afshar[a] (Persian: نادر شاه افشار; 6 August 1698 [5] – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history, ruling as shah of Iran (Persia) from 1736 to 1747, when he was assassinated during a rebellion. He fought numerous campaigns throughout the Middle ...
Marvi notes the Koh-i-Noor as one of many stones on the Mughal Peacock Throne that Nader looted from Delhi. [11] The diamond then changed hands between various empires in south and west Asia, until being given to Queen Victoria after the Second Anglo-Sikh War and the British East India Company 's annexation of the Punjab in 1849, during the ...
As payment for returning the crown of India to the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah, he took possession of the entire fabled treasury of the Mughals, including the Daria-i-Noor, the Koh-i-Noor, and the Peacock Throne. [3] After Nader Shah's death in 1747, the diamond was inherited by his grandson, Shahrokh Mirza.
The last decades of the 18th century were marked by continual strife between rival claimants to the Peacock Throne. Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (r. 1762–1796) took advantage of the disorder to consolidate her control over the weak polities of the Caucasus, which was, for swaths of it, an integral Persian domain.