Dowlatshah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dowlatshah

Iranian writer

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1789

Place of Birth: Larijan District, Mazandaran Province, Iran

Date of Death: 22-Nov-1821

Profession: poet

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Mohammad Ali Mirza Dowlatshah (4 January 1789 – 22 November 1821, Al-Mada'in, Ottoman Iraq) was a famous Persian Prince of the Qajar Dynasty.
He is also the progenitor of the Dowlatshahi Family of Persia.
He was born at Nava, in Mazandaran, a Caspian province in the north of Iran.
He was the first son of Fath-Ali Shah, the second Qajar king of Persia, and Ziba Chehr Khanoum, a Georgian slave girl of the Tsikarashvili family.
He was also the elder brother (by seven months) of Abbas Mirza.
Dowlatshah was the governor of Fars at age 9, Qazvin and Gilan at age 11, Khuzestan and Lorestan at age 16, and Kermanshah at age 19. In the battles with Russia and Persia's archrival, the Ottoman Empire, he defeated the Ottomans in Baghdad and Basra, and crushed the Russians in Yerevan and Tbilisi.
Dowlatshah developed and improved the city of Kermanshah and established the city of Dowlat-Abad which was renamed Malayer. Dowlatshah had 10 sons.
His descendants live in different countries in the world and carry the last names ???????? (Persian spelling), Dowlatshahi (English spelling), Dolatshahi (Latin spelling) and Doulatchahi (French spelling).