Tahmasp I
Safavid Shah of Iran from 1524 to 1576
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Tahmasp I held the Safavid throne for fifty-two years through civil war, Ottoman invasion, and Uzbek raids — the longest reign of any shah in the dynasty. He crushed internal rivals, beat back Suleiman the Magnificent's attempts to replace him, and reshaped Iran's religious identity by ending messianic worship of his father and forging a zealous Shi'a orthod
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Tahmasp took the throne at ten after his father Ismail I died in 1524, and spent his first eight years watching Qizilbash warlords tear the empire apart in civil war. At fourteen he won the Battle of Jam against Uzbek raiders using artillery; at eighteen he finally imposed absolute rule. For decades he fought a three-phase war with Suleiman the Magnificent, who tried repeatedly to install puppet shahs — it ended in 1555 with the Peace of Amasya, costing Iran Iraq and much of Kurdistan. He built a royal house for painters and poets, then later turned on the poets and exiled many to Mughal India…
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