"This 16th Century Battle Created the Modern Middle East" Topic
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Tango01 | 21 Aug 2014 9:21 p.m. PST |
"Chaldiran (چالدران) today is a small, sleepy town in northwestern Iran near the Turkish border. Yet, nearly five hundred years ago to the day, on August 23, 1514, the plains outside of Chaldiran groaned under the weight of men and horses and thundered with the sound of cannon-fire and muskets. The Battle of Chaldiran is one of the most pivotal battles in the history of the Middle East. Rather than being an obscure footnote in history, it was a battle of pivotal importance, with results that still reverberate in the modern Middle East. By determining the borders and demographics of the Persian Safavid Empire and the Turkish Ottoman Empire, the Battle of Chaldiran created the contours of the modern Middle East. In the early 16th century, two empires were competing for eastern Turkey and the Fertile Crescent (Iraq and greater Syria). One of these was the Sunni Ottoman Empire, based in western Turkey and Constantinople (Istanbul). While its ruling class was Turkish, the majority of its subjects were still Christians from the Balkans. The other empire was a new creation of the era – the Safavid Empire. The Safavid Empire was founded by the leader of the Shia Sufi Safaviyya sect, Shah Ismail, who was of mixed Turkish, Persian, and Kurdish descent. Starting a series of conquests from a small principality in Azerbaijan in northwestern Iran, Ismail impressively won his first battle in 1501 at the age of 14. By 1510, only nine years later, he had conquered all of the Iranian Plateau and the city of Baghdad. Ismail's eastern campaigns checked Uzbek power and helped a prince named Babur set up his Mughal Empire…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
Qurchi Bashi | 23 Aug 2014 5:27 a.m. PST |
Indeed, Chaldiran was terribly important. It was an interseting battle that I'd love to have the figures to reproduce someday. The Safavid cavalry beat the ottoman cav on the flanks, but was then stopped by the jannisaries and artillery in the centre. Thanks for reminding me the anniversary is coming up. |
Tango01 | 08 Sep 2014 10:12 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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