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Shah Abbas's Great Deportation: How Persia Transformed a City
In 1604, Shah Abbas I ordered one of the most audacious demographic experiments of the early modern world: the forced relocation of tens of thousands of Armenians from the borderlands of the Ottoman Empire deep into the heart of Safavid Persia. This episode follows the harrowing journey of the deportees from the town of Julfa in Nakhchivan to the banks of the Zayandeh River in Isfahan, where they were settled in a new suburb called New Julfa. We explore Shah Abbas's dual motives: a scorched-earth tactic to deny the Ottomans a tax base and skilled labor, and a visionary economic plan to turn…
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