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Tahmasp I

Tahmasp I (3 March , 1514-1576) was an influential Shah

Shah

Shah is a Persian language term for a monarch that has been adopted in many other languages.Shah used as a last name by Jains and Hindus is unrelated....
of Persia

Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
of the Safavid Dynasty.

Tahmasp was born in Shah Abad and came to power at the age of 10, when he succeeded to the throne of Persia in 1524 after the death of Shah Isma'il I

Ismail I

Shah Isma'il Abu'l-Mozaffar bin Sheikh Haydar bin Sheikh Junayd Safawi , was a Shah of Iran and the founder of the Safavids, which survived until 1736....
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Tahmasp I (3 March , 1514-1576) was an influential Shah

Shah

Shah is a Persian language term for a monarch that has been adopted in many other languages.Shah used as a last name by Jains and Hindus is unrelated....
of Persia

Persian Empire

Ismail I

Shah Isma'il Abu'l-Mozaffar bin Sheikh Haydar bin Sheikh Junayd Safawi , was a Shah of Iran and the founder of the Safavids, which survived until 1736....
. During his childhood he was weak and unable to exert control over his empire. This resulted in the uprising of the Qizilbash tribesmen, an important part of the Safavid power structure. Upon adulthood, however, he was able to reassert the power of the Shah and control the tribesmen.

His reign was marked by foreign threats, primarily from the Ottomans and the Uzbeks

Uzbeks

The Uzbeks are a Turkic peoples people of Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China....
. It was during this period of the Safavid history that the area of modern day Iraq

Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
was finally won by the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
. In the year 1555, however, he regularized relations with the Empire through the Peace of Amasya

Peace of Amasya

The Peace of Amasya was a treaty agreed to in 1555 by Shah Tahmasp of Persia and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent of Turkey at the city of Amasya....
. This peace lasted for 30 years, until it was broken in the time of Shah Mohammed Khodabanda

Mohammed Khodabanda

Mohammed Khodabanda of Khudabanda, also known as Mohammed Shah, was the fourth Safavid Shah of Iran .He succeeded to the throne of Persia upon his brother Ismail II's death in 1578....
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He is also known for the reception he gave to the fugitive Mughal

Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was a Muslim imperial power of the Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, ruled most of the Indian Subcontinent by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century....
Emperor Humayun which is depicted in a painting on the walls of the Safavid palace of Chehel Sotoon. This meeting is also important because it strengthened the Safavid claims over the Mughal Empire

Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was a Muslim imperial power of the Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, ruled most of the Indian Subcontinent by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century....
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One of Shah Tahmasp's more lasting achievements was his encouragement of the Persian rug

Persian rug

The Persian carpet is an essential part of Iran art and culture. Carpet-weaving is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished manifestations of Persian culture and art, and dates back to Persian Empire....
industry on a national scale, possibly a response to the economic effects of the interruption of the Silk Road

Silk Road

The Silk Road is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe....
carrying trade during to the Ottoman wars.