Bushehr was used as a base by the British Royal Navy in the late 18th century. In the 19th century, Bushehr became an important commercial port. It was occupied by British forces in 1856, during the Anglo-Persian War of 18561857. Bushehr surrendered to the British on 9 December 1856. It was occupied again by the British in 1915, the second time due ...

The First World War had a profound effect on the history of many non-European nations. Indeed, the dominant Eurocentric approach to historiography regarding this period, with a specific focus on the trench wars in Western Europe, ignores how the Great War influenced nation state building in Turkey and Iran after the disintegration of the Ottoman and ...