Shirvan
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Shirvan is a historical region in the eastern Caucasus, as known in both pre-Islamic Sasanian and Islamic times. Today, the region is an industrially and agriculturally developed part of the Republic of Azerbaijan that stretches between the western shores of the Caspian Sea and the Kura River, centered on the Shirvan Plain.
Traditional pile carpet of Shirvan
19th century Shirvan carpet. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Shirvan Tatar (i.e. Azerbaijani). Engraving from book of Jean Baptiste Benoît Eyriès. Voyage pittoresque en Asie et en Afrique: résumé général des voyages anciens et modernes... T. I, 1839
Tahmasp I
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Tahmasp I was the second shah of Safavid Iran from 1524 until his death in 1576. He was the eldest son of Ismail I and his principal consort, Tajlu Khanum.
Tahmasp Mirza holds an audience, together with the grand sayyeds and theologians, in the Bagh-Shahr in Balkh, on his arrival as governor of Khorasan. Album leaf attributable to Mo'en Mosavver, from a copy of Bijan's Tarikh-i Jahangusha-yi Khaqan Sahibqiran (A History of Shah Ismail I), Isfahan, c. 1670
Accession of Shah Tahmasp I to the throne, folio from Kholassat ot-Tavarikh by Ahmad Monshi Ghomi
Battle between Tahmasp I and Ubayd Allah Khan on 24 September 1524, folio from Kholassat ot-Tavarikh by Ahmad Monshi Ghomi