Tamar Amilakhori

Tamar Amilakhori (Georgian: თამარ ამილახორი) was a 17th-century Georgian noblewoman from the Amilakhori family and a favourite concubine of Safavid king Abbas I of Persia (r. 1588-1629).

Tamar was a daughter of Faramarz Amilakhori and a sister of Abd-ol-Ghaffar Amilakhori. Sometime around 1619, after Abbas I ordered roughly 40,000 immigrant Georgian and Armenian families in Farahabad to conduct the Epiphany ceremony, Tamar donated some 30,000 tomans for the construction of "an all-weather paved causeway to Farrokhabad". She dedicated the act to God as an offer for Abbas I's health.[1]

References

Floor, Willem; Herzig, Edmund, eds. (2012). "Exploitation of the Frontier". Iran and the World in the Safavid Age. I.B. Tauris. p. 483. ISBN 978-1780769905.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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[1] Floor, Willem; Herzig, Edmund, eds. (2012). "Exploitation of the Frontier". Iran and the World in the Safavid Age. I.B. Tauris. p. 483. ISBN 978-1780769905.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)