Bagher Khan — Encyclopaedia Iranica

Encyclopaedia Iranica entry 'Baqer Khan Salar-e Melli' by Abbas Amanat; used for entity facts. It gives his birth at Tabriz in the 1870s, son of Haji Reza, a bricklayer who became chief luti of the Khiaban quarter and was himself 'from an orthodox (motasharre') background', his ten-month defence of Tabriz, the Atabak Park surrender of 1910, and his murder in Muharram 1335 (November 1916) near Qasr-e Shirin.