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As a result of the blockade, there was a severe famine as the people of Tabriz were forced to eat the leaves of desert trees and grass, and many of the residents of Tabriz starved to death. [3] However, the constitutionalists resisted for eleven months and tried to break the siege several times.
The siege of Tabriz (Persian: فتح تبریز) was a military conflict during the Ottoman–Safavid war of 1603–1612. As a result of a successful Persian siege initiated by Shah Abbas the Great , Tabriz was returned to the Safavids after 18 years of Ottoman rule.
Siege of Tabriz or capture of Tabriz may refer to: Siege of Tabriz (1501) Siege of Tabriz (1585) Siege of Tabriz (1585–1586) Safavid capture of Tabriz (1603) Capture of Tabriz (1635) Siege of Tabriz (1908–1909) Russian occupation of Tabriz (1909–1918) Tabriz during World War I, briefly captured by the Ottomans in 1915
The siege of Tabriz (Persian: محاصره تبریز) took place in 1501 just after the Safavids had defeated the Aq Qoyunlu in the Battle of Sharur. In the preceding battle the Safavids were able to defeat the Aq Qoyunlus that had an army which was 4 times bigger than the Safavid army. [ 1 ]
The Ottoman invasion, led by Murad IV, commenced from Erzurum on August 8. They quickly besieged the city of Iravan, but the siege was short-lived. Tahmasib-Kulu Khan, the commander of the fortress garrison, betrayed Isfahan palace and fled, leading to the Ottoman army redirecting their efforts southeastward towards Tabriz. [1] [2]
Drawing of the capture of Tabriz and the parading before Shah Abbas I of the severed heads of Ottoman soldiers. Drawn by a European traveller, 1603. As a result of the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590) the Ottomans had gained swaths of the Safavid territories in the northwest and west, including Shirvan, Dagestan, most of Azerbaijan, Kartli, Kakheti, Luristan, and Khuzestan.
Howard Conklin Baskerville (10 April 1885 – 19 April 1909) was an American missionary teacher. [1] His life ambition was to become a pastor. He worked as a teacher employed by the American missionaries at the American Memorial School in Tabriz, a Presbyterian mission school, and was killed during the Persian constitutional revolution in an attempt to break the siege of Tabriz. [2]
858 CE – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz. [3] [4] 1041 – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz. [3] [4] 1208 – Annexed by the army of Kingdom of Georgia under command of brothers Ivane and Zakaria Mkhargrdzeli. [5] 1275 – Marco Polo traveled through Tabriz on his way to China. [6] 1298 – Sham-i Ghazan built ...