Abbas the Great
Shah of Safavid Iran (1587–1629)
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He inherited an empire tearing itself apart — warlords murdering his family, enemies carving off provinces — and died leaving Iran larger, richer, and centered on a capital so grand it still defines Persian architecture.
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Abbas came to the throne at sixteen in 1588, installed by the same Qizilbash warlords who had killed his mother and brother while his father's weak rule collapsed around them. He moved fast: broke the tribal military's grip by building a new army of enslaved Circassians, Georgians, and Armenians who answered only to him, then turned that force outward. Over three decades he beat back the Ottomans and Uzbeks, reclaimed the South Caucasus, drove out the Portuguese, and pushed Iranian power deeper into the North Caucasus than it had ever reached. He moved the capital to Isfahan and rebuilt it as…
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