Event

Ottoman-Safavid War (1532-1555 CE)

Ottoman campaigns under Suleiman taking Iraq/Baghdad region and setting the long Ottoman-Safavid frontier (Finkel 2005; Savory 1980).

Islamic

Event Details

Date: 1532 CE-1555 CE
Type: interstate-war
Civilizations: islamic, persian-iranian

Description

Ottoman campaigns under Suleiman taking Iraq/Baghdad region and setting the long Ottoman-Safavid frontier (Finkel 2005; Savory 1980).

Quantitative facts and their sourcing

Dates 1532-1555; outcome: Ottoman victory, ending with the Peace of Amasya (1555) (Wikipedia infobox).
Figures not reliably recorded. Why: Batch G: no open translation of Celalzade, Pecevi or Hasan Rumlu located; Zeno covers only Chaldiran.

Confidence

medium (dates/outcome); numbers not used. Numbers marked "Wikipedia-compiled (stub)" come from a secondary aggregator and must be upgraded to page-level scholarly citations before any Official use.

Citations

finkel2005-osmans-dream [formal] Caroline Finkel (2005). Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923. John Murray / Basic Books. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8203300W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
savory1980-iran-under-safavids [formal] Roger Savory (1980). Iran under the Safavids. Cambridge University Press. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5041730W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
wp-ottoman-safavid-war-1532 [STUB (secondary aggregator)] Wikipedia contributors (2026). Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–1555) (Wikipedia; secondary aggregator, stub-grade). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman–Safavid_War_(1532–1555). Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).

Review status

SOFT draft. Not Official. Needs editor review of CAD tags (estimated) and page-level citation upgrade.

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interstate war · 1532 CE-1555 CE

Ottoman-Safavid War (1532-1555 CE)

Ottoman campaigns under Suleiman taking Iraq/Baghdad region and setting the long Ottoman-Safavid frontier (Finkel 2005; Savory 1980).

Evidence: Stub only Draft estimate

Details pending

Details pending. Only a Wikipedia summary stands behind this conflict so far. No figures, units or casualty numbers are shown until a scholarly source has been read.

Why no primary source yet. "Batch G: no open translation of Celalzade, Pecevi or Hasan Rumlu located; Zeno covers only Chaldiran."

Where it sits

Polity: Ottoman Empire (Islamic)
Polity: Safavid Empire (Persian / Iranian)
Related: Battle of Chaldiran (1514 CE)
Related: Ottoman-Safavid War (1603-1612 CE)

Sources and evidence

Formal Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 (Caroline Finkel, 2005)
Formal Iran under the Safavids (Roger Savory, 1980)
Stub Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–1555) (Wikipedia; secondary aggregator, stub-grade) (Wikipedia contributors, 2026)

No page-level citation is claimed for any source. Figures marked unverified come from a Wikipedia aggregator and are not for Official use.

Art: Patterns of Civilization chronicle art, made with AI: illustrations, not historical evidence. Entries are drafts preserved from civilization.study. Method and sources.