biography
| name: |
Abbas I
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known as Abbas the Great
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pronunciation:
[abas]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1571–1629)
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| biography:
| The fifth Safavid shah of Persia. After his accession (1588), he set about establishing a counterweight to the Turkmen tribal chiefs who had constituted the principal political and military powers in the state. From 1598 he was able to recover Azerbaijan and parts of Armenia from the Ottomans, and Khurasan from the Uzbeks. He transferred his capital from Qazvin to Isfahan (Esfahan), and established diplomatic and economic relations with W Europe. |
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