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military aid – but none of the Safavids had made diplomatic overtures to Europe. Shah Ismail I was the first of the Safavids to try to establish once again

IRANIAN HISTORY (2) Islamic period (page 4): The Safavids". Encyclopaedia Iranica. The origins of the Safavids are clouded in obscurity. They may have been

the reign of the first Safavid shah (king), Ismail I (r. 1501–1524), the military, political, and religious goals of the Safavids became unified. In 1501

The Safavid conquest of Bahrain was a military campaign launched in 1602 to capture the island of Bahrain from the Portuguese. The Safavids expelled the

from Syria and Mount Lebanon (...) Savory, Roger (2007). Iran Under the Safavids. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0521042512. Abisaab

retained influence from Shah Ismail and the Safavids. He embraced the same rhetoric used against the Safavids send military force to crush the rebellion

grandmother Theodora Megale Komnene). The Safavids were essentially Türkmen of remote Kurdish descent, and the Safavid conquest has been presented as "the third

of carts. The Safavids, who did not have artillery at their disposal at Chaldiran, used cavalry to engage the Ottoman forces. The Safavids attacked the

Mughal–Safavid war may refer to these wars between the Mughal Empire and Safavid Iran: Mughal–Safavid war (1622–1623) Mughal–Safavid War (1637–1638) Mughal–Safavid

years prior to the war and up to including most of the war itself, the Safavids were experiencing significant domestic issues and rivalling noble factions