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Conflict Middle East

Safavid Empire Conquests

1501 CE – 1524 CE · 23 years

Shah Ismail I unified Persia and imposed Twelver Shia Islam as the state religion, creating the Safavid Empire and establishing the sectarian divide that shapes the Middle East to this day.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Safavid Persia (Ismail I)
  • Aq Qoyunlu, Uzbek Khanate, Ottomans

Key moments

Defining events in the Safavid Empire Conquests.

  1. 1501 Battle of Sharur
  2. 1514 Battle of Chaldiran
  3. 1508 Conquest of Baghdad

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1501 CE and 1524 CE.

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Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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