| Campaign of Trabzon | |||||||
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| Part of The Ottoman–Persian Wars | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Ottoman Empire |
 Safavid Iran | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Selim I |
Ebrahim | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 450 | 3,000 men[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
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The Campaign of Trabzon occurred in the year 1505 when Selim I fought against the Safavids after Shah Ismail's brother led an attack against Trabzon.[1][2]
Shah Ismail's brother Ebrahim set out with an army composed of 3,000 men to pillage Selim's province.[1] Selim beat back and chased the Safavids with only 450 soldiers as far as Erzincan; he massacred many of them and seized their arms and munitions.[1] Selim then sent a separate force to raid the western territories of the Safavids.[1] After the battle of 1505, Shah Ismail sent an envoy to Bayezid II complaining about Selim's over-aggressive raids and demanding the return of his captured soldiers' weapons.[1] Bayezid did not return the weapons but he did send the envoy back with gifts and promises of friendship.[1] Selim fought against the Safavids again in 1507 and in 1510, both times defeating the Safavid forces.[3][4]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Mikhail, Alan (2020). God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571331925. https://books.google.com/books?id=x6XHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT164.
- ↑ Papadimitriou, Filippos (2020). "Ottoman–Safavid Relations under Bayezid II (1501–1512)". https://www.academia.edu/42900926.
- ↑ Finkel, Caroline (2012). Osman's Dream. John Murray Press. ISBN 9781848547858. https://books.google.com/books?id=hslOx5bvOzkC&pg=PT145. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ↑ Ágoston, Gábor (2021). The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691159324. https://books.google.com/books?id=kXALEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA121. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
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