The Safavis also face external challenges from …
Years: 1396 - 1539
The Safavis also face external challenges from the Uzbeks to the northeast and the Ottoman Empire to the west.
The Uzbeks are an unstable element who raid into Khorasan, particularly when the central government is weak, and block the Safavi advance northward into Transoxiana.
The Uzbeks are an unstable element who raid into Khorasan, particularly when the central government is weak, and block the Safavi advance northward into Transoxiana.
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
