Mahmud is worried about the reaction when…

January 1723 CE

Mahmud is worried about the reaction when the surviving Afghans return to Isfahan to bring news of the defeat.

Fearing a revolt by his subjects, he invites his Persian ministers and nobles to a meeting under false pretenses and has them slaughtered.

He also executes up to three thousand of the Persian royal guards.

At the same time, the Ottomans and the Russians take advantage of the chaos in Persia to seize land for themselves, limiting the amount of territory under Mahmud's control.

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Isfahan > Esfahan Esfahan Iran View →

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Mahmud Hotak View → Sultan Husayn View → Tahmasp II View →

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Iranian peoples View → Persian people View → Pashtun people (Pushtuns, Pakhtuns, or Pathans) View → Circassians View → Muslims, Sunni View → Muslims, Shi'a View → Ghilzai (Pashtun tribal confederacy) View → Russians (East Slavs) View → Turkish people View → Ottoman Empire View → Qizilbash or Kizilbash, (Ottoman Turkish for "Crimson/Red Heads") View → Persia, Safavid Kingdom of View → Russian Empire View → Persia, Hotaki Ghilzaid Kingdom of View →

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Hotaki-Safavid War View → Russo-Persian War of 1722-23 View →

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Weapons View →

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Commerce View → Labor and Service View → Conflict View → Mayhem View → Faith View → Government View → Technology View →

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