The conquest of Shirvan was the first campaign of Ismail, the leader of the Safavid order. In late 1500, Ismail marched into Shirvan, and, despite heavily...

was buried in the city of Baku. He was succeeded by his son Farrukh Yasar. In 1500, following the Safavid conquest of Shirvan, the commander Khadem Beg...

7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history...

including Shirvan, Dagestan, most of Azerbaijan, Kartli, Kakheti, Luristan, and Khuzestan. Abbas I had recently undertaken a major reform of the Safavid army...

Shirvanshah of Shirvan (1465–1500). In 1500, the first Safavid ruler, Ismail I, decisively defeated and killed Farrukh Yasar during his conquest of the area...

of a Persianized dynasty of Arabic origin. The Shirvanshah established a native Azerbaijani state and were rulers of Shirvan, a historical region in present-day...

change since the Muslim conquest of Persia in the 7th century. As a direct result of the Safavid conversion campaign, the Shia sect of Islam remains dominant...

Ottoman–Safavid Wars or Ottoman–Iranian Wars were a series of wars between Ottoman Empire and the Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, and Qajar dynasties of Iran (Name...

Hephthalite–Persian Wars Aksumite–Persian wars Military of Safavid Iran Persian–Uzbek wars Ottoman–Persian Wars Military of Afsharid Iran Mughal–Persian Wars Russo-Persian...

much of Dagestan – generally referred to as Transcaucasia – and considered part of the Safavid Iran prior to the Russo-Persian Wars. Over the course of the...

controlled the Shirvan region from 1761 to 1820. Under the Safavid dynasty of Iran, Shirvan was a leading silk manufacturer and its principal city, Shamakhi...

came to be ruled by a Safavid governor. After the conquest, Ismail had Alexander I of Kakheti send his son Demetre to Shirvan to negotiate a peace agreement...

The Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590) or Ottoman–Iranian War of 1532–1555 (Persian: جنگ ایران و عثمانی ۱۵۹۰–۱۵۷۸, romanized: Jange Irân va Osmânī 1578–1590)...

The conversion was especially harsh in Shirvan, where many Sunnis were massacred.[citation needed] Safavid Iran became a feudal theocracy during this...

eventually part of the Ottoman Empire, otherwise known as Ottoman Armenia, while the eastern portion became and was kept part of the Iranian Safavid Empire, Afsharid...

the throne of Shirvan in the 15th century. In the early 16th century, the kingdom of Shirvan was conquered by Shah Ismail of the Safavid dynasty. As Shah...

the jurisdiction of the Safavid governor of Shirvan, Hajji Manuchehr Khan. When these efforts proved to be unsuccessful, the Safavids sent a 30,000 strong...

the Safavid Empire was in a state of heavy decline. In 1721, the Lezgins sacked and looted the city of Shamakhi, the provincial capital of Shirvan. The...

fifth shah of Safavid Iran from 1588 to 1629. The third son of Shah Mohammad Khodabanda, he is generally considered one of the greatest rulers of Iranian...

Shirvanshah rule was abolished by the Safavid shahs (kings) of Iran, who turned Shirvan into a province, which Shabaran was part of. The German explorer Engelbert...

Khanate Shirvan Khanate Tabriz Khanate Talysh Khanate Urmia Khanate Rouran Khaganate Later Jin dynasty – Later evolved into the Qing dynasty Khanate of Kalat...

Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723, known in Russian historiography as the Persian campaign of Peter the Great, was a war between the Russian Empire and Safavid Iran,...

was the son of Shaykh Ibrahim, father of Shaykh Haydar and grandfather of the founder of Safavid dynasty, Shah Ismail I. After the death of his father...

territory into a full Safavid province and appointed its first Safavid governor. From then on, Shamakhi functioned as the capital of the Shirvan province. In 1562...

the Safavid dynasty, which set Shia Islam as the empire's official religion, marking one of the most important turning points in the history of Islam...

Karabakh, and Shirvan), the Azerbaijan Province (including Tabriz, but not Ardabil, which remained in Safavid hands), Luristan, Dagestan, most of the remaining...

into the Safavid province of Shirvan. The Sunni Ottomans briefly managed to occupy present-day Azerbaijan as a result of the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1578–1590;...

at Derbent. Large parts of Dagestan had been part of the Iranian Safavid Empire since the 16th century. At the beginning of the 18th century, following...

played instrumental role in Safavid conquest of Shirvan. Swietochowski, Tadeusz; Collins, Brian C. (1999). Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan. Scarecrow Press...

banks of the Agsu River in Shirvan. The Safavid army, under the command of the Crown Prince Hamza Mirza, defeated the army of the Ottoman ally, the Crimean...