Safavid-Ottoman Border Conflicts and Prelude to War in the 1570s

Name: Safavid-Ottoman Border Conflicts and Prelude to War in the 1570s
Start: 1571
End: 1578

Type Event Region West Asia Time 1571–1578

In the 1570s Safavid Persia and the Ottomans faced off along Mesopotamian, Kurdish, and Caucasian borders;…

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1571–1577Kurdistan border · KurdistanSince the Peace of Amasya in 1555, the two sides had clashed repeatedly over Kurdish tribal allegiance, the spread of Shia Islam, and the Caucasian buffer zone. Border raids and proxy conflicts were frequent, but no large-scale battle had yet broken out.
1578Revan · AzerbaijanOttoman vizier Lala Mustafa Pasha led forces, with Georgian allies, into Revan (in present-day Iranian Azerbaijan), defeating the Safavid garrison. This marked the formal outbreak of the fourth Ottoman-Safavid war of 1578–1590, which subsequently spread deep into the Caucasus and the Persian heartland.

Ottoman-Safavid War (1578-1590) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Safavid_War_(1578%E2%80%931590)
Safavid dynasty https://www.britannica.com/topic/Safavid-dynasty