Major conflict1722

Battle of Gulnabad

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Gulnabad · near Isfahan · Iran

Estimated casualties

5.0K – 15Kestimated dead

Safavid dead estimated between 5,000 and 15,000; Afghan losses an order of magnitude smaller.

SOURCEestimates via Wikipedia

On 8 March 1722 the Hotaki Afghan army under Mahmud Hotak decisively defeated a larger Safavid force at Gulnabad outside Isfahan, opening the way to the siege of the capital and the collapse of the Safavid dynasty.

Belligerents2

Hotak Dynasty (Afghans)
Safavid Empire

ON THE MAPSafavid Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Gulnabad
Michael Axworthy, The Sword of Persia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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