
Having been castrated when he was just six years old, the late ruler Khān had no issue. His nephew, Fath Ali Shah, succeeded him as Shahanshah, or ‘King of Kings’. Fath aimed to maintain Iran’s sovereignty over its new territories, so launched the Russo-Persian War of 1804 to 1813 to stop Russian incursions into the Caucasus region, which had traditionally been under Iranian control.
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