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Siege of Baghdad (1638)

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Baghdad · Iraq

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Sultan Murad IV personally led the Ottoman army that besieged and recaptured Baghdad from the Safavids over 15 November-25 December 1638; the victory led to the 1639 Treaty of Zuhab, fixing the lasting Ottoman-Iranian frontier in Iraq.

Belligerents2

Ottoman Empire
Safavid Empire

ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireSafavid Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Siege of Baghdad (1638)
Ottoman-Safavid War (1623-1639), Wikipedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Siege of Baghdad (1638) (1638). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/siege-of-baghdad-1638 · Sources & methodology