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    of Kakheti. His brother, David, recently submitted to the Safavid Shah Tahmasp I, converted to Islam, and returned with a Persian army to claim the crown...
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    official religion of Iran in the 16th century, Safavid rulers such as Shah Tahmasp I, patronized poets who wrote about the Battle of Karbala. The genre of...
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    official religion of Iran in the 16th century, Safavid rulers such as Shah Tahmasp I, patronized poets who wrote about the Battle of Karbala. The genre of...
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    Ottoman Empire would be attacked on its rear. Envoys were sent to Shah Tahmasp I in 1525, and again in 1529, pleading for an attack on the Ottoman Empire...
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    freedom of worship is granted again to the Protestant Hugueonots. May 14 – Tahmasp I, the Shah of Safavid Iran for almost 52 years, is accidentally poisoned...
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    Austrian cartographer and scientific instrument maker (d. 1574) February 22 – Tahmasp I, Shah of Iran (d. 1576) February 22 – Johannes Gigas, German theologian...
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