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Siege of Tabriz (1908–1909) took place during the Persian Constitutional Revolution, when which forces affiliated with Mohammad Ali Shah, besieged Tabriz for 11 months to suppress the constitutionalists and prevent food and medicine from reaching the city. [1]
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: 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.
The Ottomans occupied Tabriz without encountering resistance, and Murad IV ordered the destruction of the city. Turkish historians described how Ottoman soldiers demolished tall buildings and grand palaces, dismantling and carrying away window frames made by skilled craftsmen, many of which were adorned with sky-blue or azure colors.
During the one-year Siege of Tabriz, Russia had repeatedly expressed concern about the security of its consuls. In correspondence between Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolsky and Persian Prime Minister Hossein-Qoli Nezam al-Saltaneh Mafi, the issue of the Russian military invasion of Tabriz and its conquest was repeatedly raised. [3]
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.
Equestrian battle in front of a city gate. Rashid ad-Din, Jami al-Tawarikh, Diez Albums, 1300–1325. The Taʾrīkh-ī Ghazānī, the most extensive part, which includes: The Mongol and Turkish tribes: their history, genealogies and legends; The history of the Mongols from Genghis Khan up to the death of Mahmud Ghazan (d. 1304). The second part ...
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]