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The Safavid Postal System: How Shah Abbas Sped Up an Empire
In this episode of Fexingo History, Lucas and Luna explore a little-known but vital piece of Safavid infrastructure: the royal postal and courier system known as the chapar. Under Shah Abbas I, the network of relay stations with fresh horses connected Isfahan to Tabriz, Herat, and Bandar Abbas, cutting travel time for urgent messages from weeks to days. Lucas explains how the Qizilbash and gholam administrators maintained the stations, how the system carried official dispatches, intelligence reports, and even trade information, and how it compared to the earlier Mongol yam and the later…
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