• In Roman times, Hasankeyf (known as Kepha , Cephe , Cepha or Ciphas ) was a base for legionaries on the frontier with the Sasanian Empire of Persia. (wikipedia.org)
  • From the 16th century to the early 20th century, the territory of present-day Kurdistan was divided between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid (later Qajar) Empire of Persia. (kurdistanobserver.com)
  • In the Safavid and Qajar Empires of Persia, the Kurds experienced a similar degree of autonomy, with local Kurdish rulers governing their territories on behalf of the central government. (kurdistanobserver.com)
  • They ruled one of the greatest Persian empires since the Muslim conquest of Persia and established the Twelver school of Shi'a Islam as the official religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turning points in Muslim history. (timetoast.com)
  • Not only would Persia and the Ottomans be opposed in a geo-political and religious (Sunni Shiites) confrontation, some kind of cultural duel would become part of it. (masterart.com)
  • Aftewards, Georgia was then relatively unmolested again, until it became a plaything of the new Empires, Safavid Persia, Ottoman Turkey, and Tsarist Russia. (transanatolie.com)
  • Maps of Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Persia, and Mughal India ca. 1500-1800. (stanford.edu)
  • These had no exact counterparts in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, which stretched east from Budapest to what is now Bangladesh. (umn.edu)
  • Indeed, the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires are known as 'gunpowder empires' because of their adoption and effective use of this new military technology. (blogspot.com)
  • Since, for thousands of years, empire was the natural state of governance for humankind - be it the Ming, Asante, Ottoman, Safavid, or Mughal empires - museums necessarily display the products of imperialism. (lootedart.com)
  • Some sources (such as ICOMOS) let it end with the break-up of the Timurid Empire in the early 16th century CE. (worldheritagesite.org)
  • My research repertoire spans history of Mughal and Early-Colonial South Asian history from the 16th to 19th century, with interest in Timurid Central Asia, and Safavid and Ottoman Empires. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • But more impressive carpet productions in the Ottoman and Safavid Empire developed almost simultaneously from the 16th century onwards. (masterart.com)
  • The city lost its status as capital in the 16th century, but remained important as a commercial hub until the end of the 18th century, with the expansion of Ottoman power. (itto.org)
  • The Safavid rulers chose Tabriz as the capital in early 16th century CE. (itto.org)
  • In December 1534, Ottoman sultan Suleiman I (r. 1520-1566) conquered Baghdad in Campaign of the Two Iraqs. (wikipedia.org)
  • His deputies presented the key of the city gate to Sultan Suleiman, and thenceforth Baghdad and Arabian Iraq became a dominion of the Ottoman empire, except for brief interludes of Iranian occupation under Abbas I (r. 1588-1629) and Nader Shah (r. 1736-1747). (wikipedia.org)
  • Mehmed II (March 30, 1432 - May 3, 1481) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to 1481. (timetoast.com)
  • He also was the teacher of Shāh Qūlī, a Persian painter later active at the court of the Ottoman sultan Süleyman the Magnificent . (britannica.com)
  • Abdülmecid I reigned as the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 2 July 1839 until his death on 25 June 1861. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • Mehmed I reigned as the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 5 July 1413 until his death on 26 May 1421. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • Prior to his reign as the emperor of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed I ruled as the Sultan of Anatolia from 1403 to 1413. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • The 28th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Selim III was a ruler who believed in modern reforms. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • Beginning in the 1400s, the world saw the birth and growth of gunpowder empires that relied on gunpowder for military dominance in their own territory and to expand that territory elsewhere. (tayloredteachings.com)
  • In 1555 Shah Thamasp I moved the capital of the Safavid Empire from Tabriz to Qazvin, because the former was too close to the border with the Ottoman Empire. (romeartlover.it)
  • Tabriz and its Bazaar were already prosperous and famous in the 13th century, when the town, in the province of Eastern Azerbaijan, became the capital city of the Safavid kingdom. (itto.org)
  • He mistakenly thinks that the Ottomans when building a mosque wherever could orient it accurately with places no-one has ever heard of on the Empire's frontier. (muslimheritage.com)
  • The Ottoman Empire's continued success through the Early Modern Era and after is attributed to the empire's strong military, vast amount of territory, mastery of advanced technology, and incorporation of diverse cultures. (ipl.org)
  • Ismail (born July 14 1487 - died May 23 1524) was a Shah of Iran and the founder of the Safavid dynasty. (timetoast.com)
  • The Safavid dynasty was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Iran. (timetoast.com)
  • Tahmasp (February 22, 1514 - May 14, 1576) was an influential Shah of Iran, who enjoyed the longest reign of any member of the Safavid dynasty. (timetoast.com)
  • According to the recent literature, those who made empire were not driven by power, prospects of financial gain, and ideas of cultural superiority alone: Ties of patronage, family, friendship, dynasty and religion crucially shaped early modern empires. (hsozkult.de)
  • The Baghdad Province (Persian: ولایت بغداد, romanized: Velāyat-e Baghdād) was a province of the Safavid Empire, centred on the territory of the present-day Iraq. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Baghdad province later partly known as a Beglarbeglik under name of "Baghdad Beglarbeglik" (Persian: بیگلربیگی‌نشین بغداد, romanized: Beīglarbeīgī-neshīn-e Baghdād) nad sometimes called "Arabian Iraq Beglarbeglik" (Persian: بیگلربیگی‌نشین عراق عرب, romanized: Beīglarbeīgī-neshīn-e ʿErāq-e ʿArab) but In fact, Safavid territories of Arabian Iraq consisted of Diyarbakr and Baghdad provinces. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the Safavid takeover, many Persian merchants came to Baghdad and increased commercial activity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many of the entries are enriched with material from Turkish and Persian primary sources written by courtiers, authors, and historians who were present at the time of major military campaigns or other important events in Ottoman history. (bloomsbury.com)
  • However, the Kurds also faced challenges to their autonomy, such as attempts by the Persian empires to exert control over the Kurdish regions and suppress Kurdish rebellions. (kurdistanobserver.com)
  • The demand for Persian carpets also increased in Western markets, leading to the establishment of carpet workshops and the growth of this industry within the empire. (proprofs.com)
  • The Ottomans also suffered losses to the Persian Safavid empire in 1623, including Baghdad. (justworldnews.org)
  • Domenico was a lecturer in Persian Literature at the University of Oxford (UK) from 2011 through 2013, and since 2010 he has taught Persian language and literature at the Harvard and Koç Universities Summer School in Ottoman Studies. (ucla.edu)
  • Her earlier publications include The Safavid Dynastic Shrine: History, religion and architecture in early modern Iran (British Institute for Persian Studies, I. B. Tauris, 2011) and the anthology, Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and politics in the twentieth century (University of Washington Press, 2008), which was awarded a Graham Foundation publication grant. (ucla.edu)
  • Süleyman the Magnificent (born 1494 - died 1566) (reigned 1520-1566) brought Ottoman imperialism to its climax. (timetoast.com)
  • The Ottoman empire was formed in the area known as modern day Turkey by Turkic warrior groups in the early 1300s, and it lasted until after World War I in the 1920s. (ipl.org)
  • Turkey), was the center of the Roman empire. (ipl.org)
  • Diyarbakr province fell to Ottomans in 1514 and only Baghdad province remained in the hands of Safavids. (wikipedia.org)
  • More recently, economist and amateur space archaeologist A. J. Deus in "Monuments of Jihad - The thought process of determining qibla orientations by Turks" (2018) * wants us to believe that Ottoman mosques are not aligned toward Mecca but rather toward specific places in Ukraine or Somalia or Armenia or Tunisia where the Ottomans were involved in military operations at the time just before the mosques were being built. (muslimheritage.com)
  • Armenians have since remained isolated and genetic structure within the population developed ~500 years ago when Armenia was divided between the Ottomans and the Safavid Empire in Iran. (blogspot.com)
  • At the age of 21, he conquered Constantinople and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire. (timetoast.com)
  • During his second reign, Mehmed II strengthened the Ottoman navy and conquered Constantinople at age 21, which ended the Byzantine Empire. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • This city expanded into the Byzantine Empire, a continuation of the Roman Empire in Eastern Europe even after the Western Roman Empire fell. (ipl.org)
  • During the entire span of the Byzantine Empire, there were several emperors that influenced the empire, but one emperor, Justinian I, is widely acknowledged as the greatest Byzantine emperor. (ipl.org)
  • The eastern Empire which is also known as the Byzantine Empire, lived on as it was wealthier and better in trade. (ipl.org)
  • According to Rietbergen (2006, p.114), Church and State were very closely combined in the Byzantine Empire, which is the first difference of Religion in the two new European Regions. (ipl.org)
  • In the Byzantine empire, ancient Greek and Roman culture and learning were preserved. (ipl.org)
  • The 18th century brought a period of political instability triggered by Ottoman attempts at expansion. (itto.org)
  • They were then trained and educated to serve in the Ottoman military or bureaucracy. (proprofs.com)
  • However, the OTTOCONFESSION project is based on the premise that the evolution of Ottoman discourse on Sunni orthodoxy can be understood only in a longer perspective that spans the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries and that it was shaped by religio-political dynamics not only among the Ottoman and Safavid Muslims, but also among Christian communities in the Ottoman Empire and in Europe as well. (europa.eu)
  • The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II cemented the status of the Empire as the preeminent power in southeastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. (timetoast.com)
  • Others choose the collapse of the Safavid Empire in the 1720s, or the earlier 1453 when the Ottoman Empire closed off trade with the West. (worldheritagesite.org)
  • At times, the essay cuts across the set timeframe (c. 1500-1800) to better contextualise the specific features of empires before the nineteenth century. (hsozkult.de)
  • However, they were also subject to the centralization policies of the empire, which sought to assert control over the Kurdish territories and people. (kurdistanobserver.com)
  • [2] Empires that once engulfed vast territories and resounded with a polyphony of voices seemingly resonate with our contemporary problems. (hsozkult.de)
  • From the beginning, Constantinople was deemed the new imperial capital for the benefit of the empire. (ipl.org)
  • Emperor Constantine made many impactful contributions to history that strengthened the Roman Empire and Christianity, some of the most significant being the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the construction of Constantinople, and the reorganization of the Roman government. (ipl.org)
  • It opened a new chapter in Ottoman expansion because of its superb location and illustrious heritage. (timetoast.com)
  • He vigorously promoted Ottoman expansion both in southwest Asia and in Europe. (timetoast.com)
  • Timur the Lame's military activities helped the growth of the Ottoman Empire by facilitating its rapid expansion. (proprofs.com)
  • In 1555, however, he regularized relations with the Empire through the Peace of Amasya. (timetoast.com)
  • Between the 9th and 7th centuries BC it was part of the Neo-Assyrian Empire , and by the mid-6th century it was part of the Median empire . (wikipedia.org)
  • The Ottomans badly damaged the Safavid state, and the two empires remained locked in intermittent conflict for two centuries. (timetoast.com)
  • How did the Ottoman notions of "Sunni orthodoxy" subsequently evolve in the late sixteenth and 17th centuries? (europa.eu)
  • Dialogic Perspectives on Community- and Confession-Building Intiatives in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-18th Centuries" took place in Budapest from June 1 to 4, 2018. (europa.eu)
  • Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries, edited by Tijana Krstic (PI) and Derin Terzioğlu (Senior Researcher) was published by Gorgias Press (Piscataway, NY) in April 2022 and is available in Open Access at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.31826/9781463243586/html . (europa.eu)
  • Edited volume #1 entitled Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750, edited by Tijana Krstic (PI) and Derin Terzioğlu (Senior Researcher) was published by Brill (Leiden) in October 2020 in Open Access and is available at https://brill.com/view/title/58970 . (europa.eu)
  • The city became a powerful government headquarter, even though the capital was moved first to Qazvin in 1548 and then to Isfahan, which were considered safer in the face of threats by the Ottoman empire. (itto.org)
  • Yet we also know that the European empires, especially of the later 19th century, were highly rapacious, militaristic and racist enterprises for whom the act of collecting was part of the psychology of colonialism. (lootedart.com)
  • As the eastern and western portions of the Roman Empire split around AD 330, Κιφας ( Kiphas ) became formalized as the Greek name for this Byzantine bishopric. (wikipedia.org)
  • Roman Empire, about 120 A.D. (macmillanlearning.com)
  • Roman Empire, about 400 A.D. (macmillanlearning.com)
  • His reign marked the end of the Western Roman Empire after the deposition of Romulus Augustus. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • After the Fall of the Roman Empire in 476 it was divided into a western and an eastern Empire. (ipl.org)
  • One of Constantine's greatest accomplishments was the Christianization of the Roman Empire. (ipl.org)
  • The end of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire led to the signing of the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920, which envisioned the creation of an independent Kurdish state. (kurdistanobserver.com)
  • Arab empires{led by Arabs, because it was rather Islamic} were great but it didn't survive because people started fighting for power and having their name as emir elmouamneen. (allempires.com)
  • Western reports about the town before the 20th century refer to it by various names that are transliterated from Arabic or Ottoman Turkish. (wikipedia.org)
  • I knew that cannon and firearms were used in the Ottoman empire, and in India, but I thought their adoption was later. (blogspot.com)
  • Baghdad was the provincial capital and the seat of the Safavid governors. (wikipedia.org)
  • After the Shah took Baghdad, the city and its environs remained in Safavid hands until the Ottomans took the area in 1534 during the Campaign of the Two Iraqs. (wikipedia.org)
  • The purpose of this system was to create a loyal and skilled military force and to assimilate the Christian population into the Muslim-dominated society of the empire. (proprofs.com)
  • Her recent publications include The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), for which she was selected as a Carnegie Foundation Scholar, and Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires: New studies in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal art and culture, editor, (Brill, 2017). (ucla.edu)
  • These wall paintings are another point in common with Isfahan's Chehel Sotun where large paintings portray Safavid Shahs defeating their enemies or entertaining their guests. (romeartlover.it)
  • Recent historiography attributes the growing concern with "orthodoxy" in the Ottoman Empire to the rise of the rival Shii Safavid Empire beginning in the first decade of the sixteenth century. (europa.eu)
  • What made it possible for these empires to rise? (studi.lt)
  • How and why did the Ottoman Empire evolve from a fourteenth-century polity where "confessional ambiguity" prevailed into a state concerned with defining and enforcing a "Sunni orthodoxy" by the early sixteenth century? (europa.eu)
  • His reign was marked by foreign threats, primarily from the Ottomans and the Uzbeks. (timetoast.com)
  • Detailed entries describe the people, careers, and major events that played a central role in the history of the Ottoman Empire, covering both internal developments in Ottoman society and the empire's relationship with the powerful forces that surrounded it. (bloomsbury.com)
  • The language used throughout is accessible and based on the assumption that the reader is not familiar with the long, rich, and complex history of the Ottoman state. (bloomsbury.com)
  • [31] The Safavid Shāh Ismā'īl I established the Twelver denomination of Shīʿa Islam as the official religion of the empire , marking one of the most important turning points in the history of Islam . (wikipedia.org)
  • Safavid history begins with the establishment of the Safaviyya by its eponymous founder Safi-ad-din Ardabili (1252-1334). (wikipedia.org)
  • Notice: This is the official website of the All Empires History Community (Reg. (allempires.com)
  • Combining comparative and connected approaches to empires through a focus on historical agents can serve this purpose and make up for the weaknesses of comparative and connected history individually. (hsozkult.de)
  • A comparative history of empire needs to retain tensions between structural limitations and individual limitations to decision-making. (hsozkult.de)
  • Not only is he clueless about medieval qibla determinations, but he has no background in Ottoman architecture and its history, Ottoman astronomy, mathematics and geography. (muslimheritage.com)
  • Western influences on the Safavid Empire led to the development of carpet weaving as a national industry. (proprofs.com)
  • This can be attributed to the introduction of new techniques and designs by Western traders and merchants, which influenced and transformed the traditional carpet weaving practices of the Safavid Empire. (proprofs.com)
  • Without strong and capable leadership, these empires were unable to address the challenges they faced, resulting in their rapid decline. (proprofs.com)
  • [5] Many historians studying empire also live in societies that grapple with their own heterogeneity as well as challenges to their states' sovereignty - be they real or imagined - on a daily basis. (hsozkult.de)
  • Timur's conquests and military campaigns provided the Ottomans with opportunities to expand their territory and gain more resources. (proprofs.com)
  • Historical records from ancient empires, such as the Sumerians, Akkadians, and Assyrians, mention the presence of various tribes in the region that are considered the ancestors of the Kurds. (kurdistanobserver.com)
  • Around 1352 the Ottomans established a foothold in Europe when they seized the fortress of Gallipoli while aiding a claimant to the Byzantine throne. (timetoast.com)
  • Conference #1 entitled "Rethinking Ottoman Sunnitization, c. 1450-c. 1700" took place in Budapest on August 25-26, 2017 ( https://tamasmail.wixsite.com/ottomansunnitization ). (europa.eu)
  • Their first great success came in 1326 with the capture of the Anatolian city of Bursa which became the capital of the Ottoman principality. (timetoast.com)
  • Constantiople became the new Ottoman capital knwon as Istanbul and Mehmed worked energetically to stimulate its role as a commercial center. (timetoast.com)
  • A descendant of the Prophet Muḥammad and a native of Eṣfahān, he worked mostly in Tabrīz, the capital of the Ṣafavid empire. (britannica.com)
  • The essay discusses recent German and English literature to offer readers an introduction to current research on early modern empires. (hsozkult.de)
  • Empire' retains its value as an analytical category for a specific form of political rule in the early modern period whenever it can also be reconstructed from the language of the sources. (hsozkult.de)
  • Only if historians explicitly consider the personal connections between early modern subjects, research about empires can transcend narratives of modernisation and differentiation. (hsozkult.de)
  • The Safavid order soon gained great influence in the city of Ardabil, and Hamdullah Mustaufi noted that most of the people of Ardabil were followers of Safi al-Din. (wikipedia.org)
  • Indeed a major part of Islamic religious order took shape at the time of these empires. (iran-bulletin.org)
  • Maxwell had stolen around £460 million from his employees' pension funds and committed extensive stock fraud in order to manipulate the share prices of his empire. (ciaonet.org)
  • This allowed the empire to strengthen its power and influence in the region, leading to a faster growth rate. (proprofs.com)
  • It might be a good idea to compare orientations of Ottoman mosques with that Ottoman list of qibla -values for Ottoman cities. (muslimheritage.com)
  • Peoples in different parts of the Catholic empire had different reasons for disliking Catholic authority. (johnredwoodsdiary.com)
  • In part, due to the use of gunpowder and the centralizing of governments, these empires maintained large empires of diverse peoples. (tayloredteachings.com)
  • The Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, was one of the most powerful empires in the ancient world and included the territory of present-day Kurdistan. (kurdistanobserver.com)