Nader's Central Asian Campaign

Nader Shah's Conquest of Central Asia
Part of Naderian Wars
The Oxus river (Amu Darya) and its environs
Date 1737-1740 Location Central Asia Result Decisive Persian victory (the conquest of the Central Asian khanates) Territorial changes Persian suzerainty over Central Asia: The Persian Empire annexes all lands south of the Oxus river (Amu Darya) Establishes hegemony over the polities to the north of the aforementioned river
Belligerents
Persian Empire	Khanate of Bukhara Khanate of Khiva
Commanders and leaders
Nader Shah Reza Qoli Mirza Tahmasp Jalayer	Abu ol-Fayz Khan Ilbares Khan

During the mid-eighteenth century the Persian empire of Nader Shah embarked upon the conquest and annexation of the Khanates of Bukhara and Khiva . The initial engagements were fought in the late 1730s by Nader Shah's son and viceroy Reza Qoli Mirza who gained a few notable victories in this theatre while Nader was still invading India to the south. Nader ordered hostilities to cease despite his son's successes and later returned victoriously from Delhi to embark on a decisive campaign himself. The conflict resulted in the most overwhelming Persian triumph against the khanates of Central Asia in modern history and with the admixture of his previous annexation in northern India, Nader's empire in the east surpassed all other Iranian empires before it, all the way back to the Sassanians and Achaemenids of antiquity.