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1897 in Iran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ140484921 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following lists events that happened during 1897 in Qajar era.

Incumbents

Monarch: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar

Births

January 23 – Ahmad Matin-Daftari, Prime Minister of Iran.

March 31 – Ali Dashti, Iranian politician.

May 17 – Gholamreza Rouhani, Iranian poet.

? – Abbasali Panbehi, Azerbaijani politician.

? – Abdolrahman Faramarzi, Iranian journalist.

? – Abdolsamad Kambakhsh, Iranian politician.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Iran, Open-knowledge and entry providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140484921. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1897.

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This entry incorporates text from “1897 in Iran” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.