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Key

Safavid Iran Ottoman Empire Mughal Empire Georgian kings and rebels Portuguese Hormuz English East India Company bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Abbas the Great — Wikipedia (the ghulam army, Bahrain, Balkh, Hormuz, Kandahar, the Georgian campaigns, death at Farahabad) — source
  2. Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–1612) and Battle of Sufiyan, 6 November 1605 — Wikipedia — source
  3. Great Surgun: the deportation of 1604–05 and the founding of New Julfa — Wikipedia — source
  4. Teimuraz I of Kakheti — Wikipedia (1614 and 1616 invasions, Martqopi, Marabda, Rostom, 1648) — source
  5. Anglo-Persian capture of Qeshm (1622) and Capture of Ormuz (1622) — Wikipedia — source
  6. Mughal–Safavid war (1622–1623): Kandahar, Prince Khurram, Ganj Ali Khan — Wikipedia — source
  7. Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–1639): Bakr Subashi, Baghdad 1624, the 1626 siege, Erevan 1635–36, Zuhab — Wikipedia — source
  8. Mohammad Baqer Mirza (Safi Mirza) — Wikipedia: his killing at Rasht and Sam Mirza's naming as heir — source
  9. Rostom of Kartli — Wikipedia: the 1629 succession and the 1633 conquest of Kartli — source
  10. Saru Taqi — Wikipedia: Mirza Taleb's murder, Ali Mardan Khan, Anna Khanum, the murder of 11 October 1645 — source
  11. Mughal–Safavid war (1649–1653): Kandahar regained and held — Wikipedia — source
  12. Mohammad Beg (Safavid grand vizier) — Wikipedia: his rise and the crown provinces — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Safavid Iran, 1600–1660

How did Shah Abbas win back Iran's frontiers, and who held them once he had destroyed his own heirs?
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