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List Of Safavid Commanders-in-chief
This is the list of Military of the Safavid dynasty#Commander-in-chief, commanders-in-chief (, ) of Safavid Iran. The amount of power the holder of the post had, fluctuated quite significantly throughout the centuries. List of commanders-in-chief Notes Sources * * {{cite book, last1=Matthee, first1=Rudi, title=Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan, date=2012, publisher=I.B.Tauris, isbn=978-1845117450, pages=1–371 Commanders-in-chief of Safavid Iran Lists of office-holders in Iran Iranian military-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Of The Safavid Dynasty
The Military of Safavid Iran covers the military history of Safavid Iran from 1501 to 1736. Foundation of the Safavid military It was the first Safavid king (shah), Ismail I (1501–1524), who laid foundation to the Safavid military. Its origins date back to 1500, when Ismail decided to come out of hiding from Lahijan, a city in Gilan, northern Iran. On his way to Azerbaijan, he recruited followers, and had already recruited 450 at Rasht and 1,500 at Tarom. By summer, Ismail had already gathered 7,000 followers, mostly Turkmens from Asia Minor, whom he had rallied together in Erzincan, while the rest were Iranians, mainly from northern Iran, such as the Talysh people. Ismail fought the Shirvanshah Farrukh Yassar during the same year, where his army is said to have ranged from 7,000 to 40,000. Another founding element of the Safavid armies, alongside the Turkomans and the Iranians, were ethnic Georgians. Numerous contemporary independent Venetian sources report that, as ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
