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Tahmasp

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Tahmasp (tä`mäsp), 1514–76, shah of Persia (1524–76), son and successor of Ismail Ismail , 1486–1524, shah of Persia (1502–24), founder of the Safavid dynasty. He restored Persia to the position of a sovereign state for the first time since the Arab invasion of Persia.
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 and the second of the Safavid dynasty. He successfully repulsed persistent invasions by the Uzbeks. Sulayman I also invaded Persia, continuing the wars between Ottomans and Persians commenced by Selim I. One stage of these wars ended with a peace treaty in 1555. In 1561 an Englishman, Anthony Jenkinson, succeeded in establishing a trade route to Central Asia and Persia across Russia. Continual warfare during the reign of Tahmasp helped bring about internal decline.


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[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] In 1544 Shah Tahmasp I, king of Iran, issued an edict detailing the supplies to be provided to the exiled Mughal emperor, Humayun.
In 1534, Shah Tahmasp insisted he wanted to rule in fact, not only in name.
22) The English trading voyages to Persia took place between the early 1560s and 1581; this period coincided with the reigns of Tahmasp I (1524-76), Isma'il II (1576-77), and Sultan Mohammed Shah (1578-87) in Persia.
 
 
 
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