Iran: Mohammad Ali Mirza Dowlatshah (1789-1821).

Mohammad Ali Mirza Dowlatshah (1789- 1821); was a famous Persian Prince of the Qajar Dynasty. He is also the progenitor of Dowlatshahi Family of Persia. He was born in Mazandaran, a Caspian province in the north of Iran. He was the first son of the Fath Ali Shah the second Qajar king of Persia and Ziba Chehr Khanoum a noble Georgian woman. He was also the elder brother 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 battles with the Russian and Ottoman Empires, he defeated the Ottomans in Baghdad and Basra and crushed the Russians in Yerevan and Tbilisi.

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