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Abbas I (Persian: عباس یکم, romanized: ʿAbbās yekom; 27 January 1571 – 19 January 1629), commonly known as Abbas the Great (Persian: عباس بزرگ, romanized: ʿAbbās-e Bozorg), was the fifth Safavid shah of Iran from 1588 to 1629.
Shah Abbas is the name of: Abbas I of Persia (1571–1629), Shah (ruler) of Iran, at apex of the Safavid dynasty Abbas II of Persia (1633–1666), Shah (ruler) of Iran, son of Shah Safi
The Great Surgun (Armenian: Մեծ սուրգուն, the Great Exile) [1] was the forced deportation of the population (mainly Armenians) from Eastern Armenia to the territory of the central and northern parts of Safavid Iran, which was carried out in 1604-1605 by the order of Shah Abbas the Great during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–1618).
Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend. I. B. Tauris. p. 133. ISBN 978-1845119898. (...) managed to break into the city on the evening of 12 January 1624, and two days later Baghdad was in Safavid hands. Ghafouri Ali History of the Iran's battles, from the Medes up to today 2009 ISBN 9789644237386.
Allahverdi Khan returned to Abbas I with the severed heads of defeated Ottomans. These were paraded at the battlefield of Chaldiran in a symbolic visit by Abbas. This was the very site where the first Safavid ruler, Ismail I (r. 1501–1524), Abbas's great-grandfather, suffered a defeat in 1514 at the hands of the Ottomans. [1]
The Ottoman–Safavid War of 1616–1618 was a brief war between the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran.. After the Ottoman–Safavid war (1603–1612), the Ottomans and Safavids had signed the Treaty of Nasuh Pasha, in which their borders were changed back to the previous one under Selim I and Shah Ismail I.
In September 1603, Shah Abbas attacked the Ottomans, thus initiating the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1603–1618. [4] Shah Abbas benefited greatly from the timing of the war. Despite his defeat at Balkh, the Uzbek threat had ended for the time being, and his authority was no longer in question within Iran. On the other hand, war and internal ...
Abbas II (Persian: عباس دوم, romanized: ʿAbbās II; born Soltan Mohammad Mirza; 30 August 1632 – 26 October 1666) was the seventh Shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1642 to 1666. As the eldest son of Safi and his Circassian wife, Anna Khanum , he inherited the throne when he was nine, and had to rely on a regency led by Saru Taqi , the ...