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The Ottomans, based in present-day Turkey, are …
Years: 1396 - 1539
The Ottomans, based in present-day Turkey, are Sunnis: as rivals for the religious allegiance of Muslims in eastern Anatolia and Iraq, they press territorial claims in both these areas and in the Caucasus.
The Safavi Empire receives a blow that is to prove fatal in 1524, when the Ottoman sultan Selim I defeats Safavi forces at Chaldiran and occupies the Safavi capital, Tabriz.
He is forced to withdraw because of the harsh winter and the Safavis' scorched-earth policy.
Safavi rulers continue to assert claims to spiritual leadership, but the defeat shatters belief in the shah as a semi-divine figure and weakens his hold on the Qizilbash chiefs.
The Safavi Empire receives a blow that is to prove fatal in 1524, when the Ottoman sultan Selim I defeats Safavi forces at Chaldiran and occupies the Safavi capital, Tabriz.
He is forced to withdraw because of the harsh winter and the Safavis' scorched-earth policy.
Safavi rulers continue to assert claims to spiritual leadership, but the defeat shatters belief in the shah as a semi-divine figure and weakens his hold on the Qizilbash chiefs.
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- Iranian peoples
- Arab people
- Transoxiana
- Khorasan, Greater
- Oghuz Turks
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Sufism
- Turkmen, Iraqi
- Turkmen people
- Mongols
- Uzbeks
- Kara Koyunlu (Black Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
- Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
- Ottoman Empire
- Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
- Qizilbash or Kizilbash, (Ottoman Turkish for "Crimson/Red Heads")
- Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
- Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
- Persia, Safavid Kingdom of
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Years: 1396 - 1539
Locations
People
Groups
- Iranian peoples
- Arab people
- Transoxiana
- Khorasan, Greater
- Oghuz Turks
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Sufism
- Turkmen, Iraqi
- Turkmen people
- Mongols
- Uzbeks
- Kara Koyunlu (Black Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
- Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
- Ottoman Empire
- Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
- Qizilbash or Kizilbash, (Ottoman Turkish for "Crimson/Red Heads")
- Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
- Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
- Persia, Safavid Kingdom of
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Subregions