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). This was during the Safavids reconquest of Yerevan.
History
[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.[2] The victorious Sultan returned in triumph to Constantinople After the conquest of Yerevan by the Ottomans in the spring of the next year, Shah Safi retook Yerevan and defeated an Ottoman army.[3][4]
Sources
[edit]- Afyoncu, Erhan (2022). A Short History of the Ottoman Empire. Yeditepe Yayınev. ISBN 978-625-8396-79-9.
- Finkel, Caroline (2006). Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923. John Murray Press. ISBN 9780719561122.
- Litvak, Meir; Bengio, Ofra (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.
- Roemer, Hans Robert (1989). Persien auf dem Weg in die Neuzeit: Iranische Geschichte von 1350–1750. Beirut, Lebanon, and Stuttgart: Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft.