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Ottoman-Safavid War (1603-1612 CE)

Shah Abbas I recovers territories lost earlier; reverses the 16th-century Ottoman gains (Savory 1980).

Islamic

Event Details

  • Date: 26 September 1603-20 November 1612
  • Type: interstate-war
  • Civilizations: islamic, persian-iranian

Description

Shah Abbas I recovers territories lost earlier; reverses the 16th-century Ottoman gains (Savory 1980).

Quantitative facts and their sourcing

  • Dates 26 September 1603 - 20 November 1612; outcome: Safavid victory (Wikipedia infobox). Strengths and casualties unknown.
  • Figures not reliably recorded. Why: Batch G: no open translation of Iskandar Beg Munshi or Ottoman chronicles for 1603-1612 found; Savory is in copyright.

Confidence

medium (dates/outcome); no numbers. Numbers marked "Wikipedia-compiled (stub)" come from a secondary aggregator and must be upgraded to page-level scholarly citations before any Official use.

Citations

  • 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-1603 [STUB (secondary aggregator)] Wikipedia contributors (2026). Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–1618) (Wikipedia; secondary aggregator, stub-grade). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman–Safavid_War_(1603–1618). 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 · 26 September 1603-20 November 1612

Ottoman-Safavid War (1603-1612 CE)

Shah Abbas I recovers territories lost earlier; reverses the 16th-century Ottoman gains (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 Iskandar Beg Munshi or Ottoman chronicles for 1603-1612 found; Savory is in copyright."

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