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العربية
Modern era · 1890 – 1892

Tobacco Protest

The Persian Tobacco Protest (Persian: نهضت تنباکو, romanized: nehzat-e tanbāku) was a Twelver Shia Muslim revolt in Qajar Iran against an 1890 tobacco concession granted by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar to the British Empire, granting control over growth, sale, and export of tobacco to an Englishman, Major G. F. Talbot.

Tobacco Protest · Wikimedia Commons
When
1890 – 1892
Where
Tehran
Era
Modern

Topics

Iran9,000 BCE – today

Before and after

Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty18901891 Mino–Owari earthquake1891Show on timeline

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