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    Ismail I (Persian: اسماعیل یکم, romanized: Ismāʿīl; 14 July 1487 – 23 May 1524) was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until...
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    University Press. ISBN 9780691118550. OCLC 918275314. Marcinkowski, M. Ismail (2002). "The Iranian-Siamese Connection: An Iranian Community in the Thai...
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    Ibrāhīm Ismā'īl ibn-i Aḥmad-i Sāmāni (Persian: ابو ابراهیم اسماعیل بن احمد سامانی; May 849 – 24 November 907), better known simply as Ismail-i Samani (اسماعیل...
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    Safavid Iran (redirect from Safavid Persia)
    married Martha 'Alamshah Begom, Uzun Hassan's daughter, who gave birth to Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty. Martha's mother Theodora—better known...
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    Safavid Iran from 1524 until his death in 1576. He was the eldest son of Ismail I and his principal consort, Tajlu Khanum. Ascending the throne after the...
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    daughter, Pari Khan Khanum, Ismail Mirza, who was imprisoned by his father for twenty years, was crowned king as Ismail II. The new king's reign turned...
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    Ismail bey Gasprinsky (also written as Gaspirali and Gasprinski; Crimean Tatar: اسماعیل بك غصپرینسکی, İsmail bey Gaspıralı; Russian: Исмаи́л Гаспри́нский...
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    expedition were led by the Church of the East Patriarch's brother Dawid; Ismail, Malka of the Upper Tyari; and Andreus, the Jilu Malik. In December 1916...
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    disposal. Ismail I, the leader of the Safavids, was wounded and almost captured during the battle. His wives were captured by the Ottoman leader Selim I, with...
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  • Khanum (Persian: بهروزه خانم; 16th-century) was a consort of shah Ismail I of Persia (r. 1501–1524). She came the Safavid imperial harem as a slave concubine...
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    Ottoman history, until the end of the 19th century. In 1514 Selim I attacked Ismail's kingdom to stop the spread of Shiism into Ottoman dominions. Selim...
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    a desire to follow in the line of Turkmen rulers is Ismail's assumption of the title 'Padishah-i-Iran', previously held by Uzun Hasan." بزرگ. "Ottoman...
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    kingdom to the Safavid Shah Ismail I (r. 1501–1524), he fled to Diyar Bakr, where he was eventually killed by Shah Ismail's Qizilbash soldiers at the end...
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    Savory 2007, p. 35. Ismāʿīl I at Encyclopædia Britannica Savory 2007, p. 36. Morgan, David (19 September 2014). Medieval Persia 1040-1797. ISBN 9781317871392...
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  • 1624 under the rule of Abbas I of Persia and reconquered Baghdad, they once more again massacred the Sunni inhabitants. Ismail II's reign (1576–77) was marked...
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    1642); Bahram Mirza (blinded 1642); Sultan Haidar Mirza (blinded 1642); Ismail Haidar Mirza (blinded 1642); Daughters Safi had two daughters: Maryam Begum...
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  • Ismail I, the region gained more autonomy and Khan Ahmad Khan was the most famous governor of Biah Pish. Later because of this autonomy, Shah Ismail feared...
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  • Mahmud Jan Daylamite (1503–?) (for Ismail I) Mirak beg Daylamite (?–?) (for Ismail I) Shah-mir Daylamite (?–?) (for Ismail I) Kamal-al-Din Shah-Hossein Isfahani...
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    Sargozasht-i Seyyednā is the main source for Hasan's background and early life. According to this, Hasan-i Sabbāh was born in the city of Qom, Persia in the...
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  • (died 1577) was the daughter of shah Tahmasp I of Persia (r. 1524–1576). She was sister to shah Ismail II. She was married to Ibrahim Mirza, whom she...
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    overthrow in 1587 by his son Abbas I. Khodabanda had succeeded his brother, Ismail II. Khodabanda was the son of Shah Tahmasp I by a Turcoman mother, Sultanum...
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    World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict fought between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers...
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    when Ismail I took the city of Tabriz from the Aq Qoyunlu Turkomans and proclaimed himself the Shah of Iran. He was succeeded by his son, Tahmasp I, whose...
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    founder, Shah Ismail I (r. 1501–1524). Nevertheless, the term became personified by Shah Abbas I. An extensive number of references to Persia and its "Sophy"...
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    Shaybani defeated an invasion by the Ferghanan ruler Babur, Persian emperor Ismail I conquered the rest of Iran. Shaybani and his horsemen began to raid the...
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  • (Persian: مهین‌بانو سلطان; 1519–1562) was the little daughter of Shah Ismail I of Persia (r. 1524–1576) and Tajlu Khanum. She was the youngest sister of Shah...
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    The Muslim conquest of Persia, also called the Muslim conquest of Iran, the Arab conquest of Persia, or the Arab conquest of Iran, was a major military...
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    1577. He was the second son of Tahmasp I with his principal consort, Sultanum Begum. By the orders of Tahmasp, Ismail spent twenty years imprisoned in Qahqaheh...
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    Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسماعيل بن إبرهيم الجعفي البخاري; 21 July 810 – 1 September...
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    ruling dynasty was founded by Ismāil, who styled himself Shāh Ismāil I. Practically worshipped by his Qizilbāsh followers, Ismāil invaded Shirvan to avenge...
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