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Sign in to savethumb|upright|right|Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who ruled Iran from 1941 to 1979, was the last king to hold the title of shah before the Iranian monarchy was abolished by the [[Iranian Revolution.]]
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A shah is a title for a king in Iran, with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi being the last person to hold this title before the Iranian monarchy ended in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution. The term matters historically because it represents the formal designation of Iranian monarchs and marks an important transition in Iran's political system when the title ceased to exist.
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- Etymology
- History
- Persian dynasties
- Non-Persian dynasties
- Impact and influence
- Derived terms
- ''Shahzada''
- Others
- Related terms
- Armenian names
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|upright|right|Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who ruled Iran from 1941 to 1979, was the last king to hold the title of shah before the Iranian monarchy was abolished by the [[Iranian Revolution.]]
Shāh (; ) is a royal title meaning 'king' in Persian. Though chiefly associated with the monarchs of Iran, it was also used to refer to the leaders of numerous Persianate societies, such as the Ottoman Empire, the Khanate of Bukhara and the Emirate of Bukhara, the Mughal Empire, the Bengal Sultanate, and various Afghan dynasties, as well as among Gurkhas. With regard to Iranian history, in particular, each ruling monarch was not seen simply as the head of the concurrent dynasty and state, but as the successor to a long line of royalty beginning with the original Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great. To this end, he was more emphatically known as the Shāhanshāh ( ), since the Achaemenid dynasty. A roughly equivalent title is Pādishāh (), which was most widespread during the Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent.