Word: saltaneh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew up in Teheran, at the declining but still magnificent court of the Kajar Shahs (who had ruled the country for more than a century, were deposed in 1925). His father, Mirza Hedayat, was for 30 years the Shah's Finance Minister. His mother, Najmos Saltaneh, was a Kajar princess, the cousin of the Shah Nasr-ed-Din, an uxorious monarch (he had 50 wives) who hated foreigners...
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