Battle of Sufiyan | |||||||
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Part of the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1603–1618 | |||||||
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~ 60,000[1] | ~ 100,000 (including large amount of janissaries)[2] | ||||||
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Unknown | ~20,000 killed[3] |
The Battle of Sufiyan[a] took place on 6 November 1605, during the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1603–1618. The Safavids, under King (Shah) Abbas I (r. 1588–1629), beat a numerically superior, fully-fledged Ottoman army.[1][4] It was one of King Abbas I's greatest military victories.[5] According to Colin Imber: "For the Ottomans the battle of Sufiyan was a greater disaster than anything they had experienced in Hungary, where the war which had begun in 1593 had revealed Ottoman military deficiencies in the face of new European weapons and tactics."[6]
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