The Military Campaigns of Shah Abbas I in Azerbaijan and the Caucasus (1603-1618)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20082097 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kaveh Farrokh (0000-0001-5732-2447, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 75-95 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004302068_007 |
| OpenAlex | W1125942084 |
| ISBN | 9789004302068 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper provides an overview of the Safavid military forces and reforms at the time of Shah Abbas I (r.1587-1629), especially with the promotion of the new Ghulam units to counterbalance the traditional Qizlibash forces which had bought the Safavids to power at the time of Shah Ismail (r. 1502-1524). Other significant military reforms were the introduction of firearm units such as the Tofanchi (musketeers), Jazayerchis (bearers of larger and heavier muskets) and Toopchis (artillerymen). The introduction of these reforms proved instrumental in Shah Abbas I's successes in expelling the Ottomans from Tabriz (1603) and Yerevan (1604), defeating the Ottoman counteroffensive in Azerbaijan (1605) and the capture of Shamakhi (1606) and Ganja (1606). Large numbers of Armenians, Kurds and Azeris had been displaced from their homelands by Shah Abbas I as a result of his scorched earth tactics against invading Ottoman forces in 1606-1607. Shah Abbas' military successes led to the Ottoman-Safavid peace treaty of 1612 which affired all of the Iranian conquests since the recapture of Tabriz. The Safavid army had to fight a series of battles in Georgia (1613-1623) which led to a new Ottoman war (1616). The Safavid army defeated the Ottoman offensives in Yerevan and Ardabil (1616-1618) obliging the Ottomans to negotiate a new peace treaty which affirmed all of Shah Abbas' conquests since 1603
Ancient history · Geography · Negotiation · Ottoman empire · Peace treaty · Political science · Politics · Treaty · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts · Ottoman and Turkish Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |