Dowlatshah

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Mohammad-Ali Mirza Dowlatshah (Persian: محمدعلی‌میرزا دولتشاه; 5 January 1789, in Nava – 22 November 1821, in Ctesiphon) was an Iranian Prince of the Qajar dynasty. He is also the progenitor of the Dowlatshahi family. He was born at Nava, in Mazandaran, a Caspian province in northern Iran. He was the first son of Fath-Ali Shah, the second Qajar shah of Iran, and Ziba-Chehr Khanum, a Georgian girl of the Tsikarashvili (also spelled Tzicara Chwili) 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 wars against Russia, he crushed the Russians in Yerevan and Tbilisi. Dowlatshah developed the city of Kermanshah and founded Dowlat-Abad, which was later renamed Malayer. Dowlatshah had 10 sons. His descendants live in various countries around the world and carry the surname: in Persian: دولتشاهی, romanized: Doulatšâhi, which is rendered as Dowlatshahi in English, Doulatchahi in French and Doulatszahi in Polish, etc.