Draft:Siege of Yerevan (1636)
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| siege of Yerevan | |||||||||
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| Part of Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–1639) | |||||||||
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 Safavid Empire |
 Ottoman Empire | ||||||||
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Shah Safi |
Murad IVTabanıyassı Mehmed Pasha | ||||||||
The siege of Yerevan was a military engagement of the Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–1639). During this Safavids Reconquest of Yerevan
Background
[edit]In 1635, in a conscious effort to emulate his warrior predecessors, Sultan Murad IV himself took up the leadership of the army. The Ottomans took Yerevan (on 8 August) and plundered Tabriz.[1] The victorious Sultan returned in triumph to Constantinople
battle
[edit]After the conquest of Yerevan by the Ottomans in the spring of the next year, Shah Safi retook Yerevan and defeated an Ottoman army.[2][3]
Sources
[edit]Erhan Afyoncu (2022), A Short History of the Ottoman Empire (Yeditepe Yayınev)[1]
Meir Litvak & Ofra Bengio (2014), The Sunna and Shi'a in History, Division, and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East[4]
- ^ Finkel (2006), pp. 215–216
- ^ Roemer (1989), p. 285
- ^ Finkel (2006), p. 217
- ^ Bengio, O.; Litvak, Meir (2014-12-16). The Sunna and Shi'a in History: Division and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-49506-8.
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