Significant1555 – 1639 · 84 years

Ottoman-Safavid Wars in Caucasus

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Caucasus · Georgia · Azerbaijan

Estimated casualties

300Ksingle estimate · no range published

Ottoman and Safavid forces competed for control of the Caucasus, with both empires making territorial gains at different periods. The region became a contested borderland between the empires.

Belligerents2

Ottoman Empire
Safavid Empire

ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireSafavid Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Ottoman-Safavid Wars in Caucasus (1555 – 1639). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/ottoman-safavid-caucasus · Sources & methodology