Abbas the Great
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Abbas I, commonly known as Abbas the Great, was the fifth Safavid shah of Iran from 1588 to 1629. The third son of Shah Mohammad Khodabanda, he is generally considered one of the most important rulers
Portrait by Bishandas c. 1618.
Portrait of Shah Abbas as a young man. Painted c. 1590.
Portrait of Ali-Qoli Khan Shamlu, protector of the young Abbas. Painted in 1584.
The strangulation of Safavid queen Khayr al-Nisa Begum, mother of Abbas, by the Qizilbash on 26 July 1579. Nusretname (1584).
The Ottoman–Safavid war of 1603–1612 consisted of two wars between Safavid Iran under Shah Abbas I and the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed III and his son Ahmed I. The first war began in 1603 and ended wi
Abbas the Great
…and Uzbeks and reconquer Iran's lost provinces, including Kakheti, whose people he subjected to widescale massacres and deportations. By the end of the 1603–1618 Ottoman War, Abbas had regained possession over South Caucasus and Dagestan, as well as swaths of Western Armenia and Mesopotamia. He also took back land from the…
Drawing of the capture of Tabriz and the parading before Shah Abbas I of the severed heads of Ottoman soldiers. Drawn by a European traveller, 1603.
View of Tbilisi as per French traveller Jean Chardin, 17th century
"Abbas King of Persia", as seen by Thomas Herbert in 1627