Afşar
Afşar or Afshar (also spelled Avşar or Avshar) may refer to:
- Afshar people, a branch of the Turkic Oghuz people
- Afshar language, the Turkic language spoken by the people above
- Afsharid dynasty, the Iranian dynasty founded by members of this people
- Afshar Beylik, a small principality in East Anatolia
- Afshar experiment, an experiment claimed by some to refute the quantum-mechanical principle of complementarity
People with the surname
- Nader Shah Afshar (1688-1747), Shah of Iran, founder of an Iranian empire and the Afsharid dynasty
- Amir Khosrow Afshar (1919–1999), Iranian diplomat and former foreign minister
- Esin Afşar (1936–2011), Turkish singer and stage actress
- Hülya Avşar (born 1963), Turkish actress, singer, and businesswoman
- Shahriar Afshar (born 1971), Iranian-American physicist
- Hoda Afshar (born 1983), Iranian-Australian photographer and artist
Places
Afghanistan
- Afshar district, a district of Kabul
Armenia
- Avshar, Ararat, a town in the Ararat Province
Azerbaijan
- Avşar, Aghjabadi, a village and municipality in the Aghjabadi Rayon
Iran
- Afshar District, a district in Khodabandeh County, Zanjan Province
- Afshar Rural District, a rural district in West Azerbaijan Province
- Afshar, Jolfa, a village in Daran Rural District, in the Central District of Jolfa County, East Azerbaijan Province
- Afshar, Meyaneh, a village in Kaghazkonan-e Shomali Rural District, in Kaghazkonan District, Meyaneh County, East Azerbaijan Province
- Afshar-e Olya, a village in Sanjabad-e Jonubi Rural District, Firuz District, Kowsar County, Ardabil Province
- Afshar, Sistan and Baluchestan, a village in Mehrestan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province
- Afsharlu, a village in Qeshlaqat-e Afshar Rural District, Afshar District, Khodabandeh County, Zanjan Province
Turkey
- Afşar, Bala, a town in the district of Balâ, Ankara Province
- Afşar, Bolu, a village in the district of Bolu, Bolu Province
- Afşar, Çerkeş
- Afşar, Dinar, a village in the district of Dinar, Afyonkarahisar Province
- Afşar, Elmalı, a village in the district of Elmalı, Antalya Province
- Afşar, Güdül, a village in the district of Güdül, Ankara Province
- Afşar, Kalecik, a village in the district of Kalecik, Ankara Province
- Avşar, Kargı
- Afşar, Mengen, a village in the district of Mengen, Bolu Province
- Afşar, Taşköprü, a village
- Afşar Dam, a dam in Manisa Province
Other
- Afsar (1950 film)
- Afsar (2018 film)
- Afshar experiment, a controversial physics experiment
- Afshar Operation, a 1993 military operation in the Afshar district of Kabul, Afghanistan
- Afshar rugs, a handwoven rug style
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