Battle of Chaldiran

Period

1514

Region

Middle East

Category

War

The Battle of Chaldiran took place on 23 August 1514 and ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. As a result, the Ottomans annexed Eastern Anatolia and Upper Mesopotamia from Safavid Iran. It marked the first Ottoman expansion into Eastern Anatolia, and the halt of the Safavid expansion to the west. The Battle of Chaldiran was just the beginning of 41 years of destructive war between the Safavids and Ottomans, which only ended in 1555 with the Peace of Amasya. Though the Safavids eventually reconquered Mesopotamia and Eastern Anatolia during the reign of Abbas the Great, they would be permanently ceded to the Ottomans by the 1639 Treaty of Zuhab.

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Earlier and later events nearby

1. 331 BCBattle of Gaugamela
2. 1071Battle of Manzikert
3. 1501Founding of the Safavid dynasty
4. 1514Battle of ChaldiranThis page
5. 1877–1878Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
6. 1988–1994First Nagorno-Karabakh War
7. 1994–1996First Chechen War

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