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Shah Ismail moves against the Uzbeks in …
Years: 1510 - 1510
Shah Ismail moves against the Uzbeks in 1510.
In battle near the city of Merv, some seventeen thousand Qizilbash warriors ambush and defeat a superior Uzbek force numbering twenty-eight thousand.
The Uzbek ruler, Muhammad Shaybani, is caught and killed trying to escape the battle and the shah has his skull made into a jeweled drinking goblet.
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- Iranian peoples
- Persian people
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Turkmen people
- Mongols
- Uzbeks
- Timurid Emirates
- Qizilbash or Kizilbash, (Ottoman Turkish for "Crimson/Red Heads")
- Persia, Safavid Kingdom of
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Years: 1510 - 1510
Locations
People
Groups
- Iranian peoples
- Persian people
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Turkmen people
- Mongols
- Uzbeks
- Timurid Emirates
- Qizilbash or Kizilbash, (Ottoman Turkish for "Crimson/Red Heads")
- Persia, Safavid Kingdom of
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions