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Battle of Jam

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Jam · near Herat · Khorasan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

In 1528 the teenage Safavid Shah Tahmasp I, using artillery and a wagon-laager, defeated an Uzbek army near Jam while relieving besieged Herat, checking Shaybanid expansion into Khorasan.

Belligerents2

Safavid Empire
Bukharan Uzbeks (Shaybanids)

ON THE MAPSafavid Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Tahmasp I
Roger Savory, Iran under the Safavids
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Jam (1528). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-jam · Sources & methodology