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Shah Abbas the Great: The Safavid King Who Built an Empire
This episode of Fexingo History focuses on the reign of Shah Abbas I, the greatest Safavid king, and his ambitious project to transform Persia into a global power. We explore his military reforms, including the creation of the gholam slave-soldier corps to counter the Qizilbash, and his strategic relocation of the capital from Qazvin to Isfahan. The conversation covers Abbas's brutal consolidation of power, his wars against the Ottomans and Uzbeks, and his economic masterstroke: forcing the Armenian merchants of Julfa to relocate to Isfahan's New Julfa suburb, turning them into his trade…
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