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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 ...
Ismail I established himself in Tabriz and declared himself the king (shah) of Iran. 1514: 23 August: Battle of Chaldiran: The Ottoman Empire inflicted a severe defeat on a numerically inferior Persian force, opening the northwestern Iranian Plateau to their occupation. 7 September: The Ottoman sultan entered Tabriz.
The Russian occupation of Tabriz lasted from 30 April 1909 until 28 February 1918, with a brief interruption during 6–31 January 1915. [1] The city of Tabriz was the second city of Qajar Persia at the time, the capital of the region of Azerbaijan , and the traditional residence of the Qajar Crown Prince.
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 ]
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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.
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]