Al Caucas, la dinastia Qajar va perdre definitivament moltes de les àrees integrals de l'Iran[8] a causa de l'Imperi rus al llarg del segle xix, que comprenia l'actual Geòrgia, Daguestan, Azerbaidjan i Armènia.[10]
↑Cyrus Ghani. Iran and the Rise of the Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power, I. B. Tauris, 2000, ISBN 1-86064-629-8, p. 1
↑William Bayne Fisher. Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 344, ISBN 0-521-20094-6
↑Dr Parviz Kambin, A History of the Iranian Plateau: Rise and Fall of an Empire, Universe, 2011, p.36, online edition.
↑Abbas Amanat, The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896, I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3; "In the 126 years between the fall of the Safavid state in 1722 and the accession of Nasir al-Din Shah, the Qajars evolved from a shepherd-warrior tribe with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty."
↑Choueiri, Youssef M., A companion to the history of the Middle East, (Blackwell Ltd., 2005), 231,516.
↑H. Scheel; Jaschke, Gerhard; H. Braun; Spuler, Bertold; T Koszinowski; Bagley, Frank. Muslim World. Brill Archive, 1981, p. 65, 370. ISBN 978-90-04-06196-5 [Consulta: 28 setembre 2012].
↑Ateş, Sabri. Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands: Making a Boundary, 1843-1914 (en anglès). Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 55–56. ISBN 978-1-107-03365-8.