Major conflict1514

Battle of Chaldiran

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Chaldiran · Persia · Anatolia

Estimated casualties

40Ksingle estimate · no range published

Ottoman forces decisively defeated the Safavid Empire, establishing Ottoman control over Mesopotamia and much of the Caucasus. This battle marked the beginning of centuries of Ottoman-Persian rivalry.

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: Battle of Chaldiran (1514). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/ottoman-safavid-war-1514 · Sources & methodology