Reign of Safavid Shah Abbas II

Name: Reign of Safavid Shah Abbas II
Start: 1661
End: 1666

Type Event Region Persia Time 1661–1666

In the 1660s, Safavid Persia under Shah Abbas II maintained imperial stability and external deterrence, strengthening central rule, preserving a bala…

Timeline

1661–1664Isfahan · IranAbbas II continued to rely on court bureaucrats and the provincial governor system to maintain revenue and public order, suppressing centrifugal local forces and sustaining a military presence in the Caucasus and Kurdish frontier regions.
1665–1666Iranian Plateau · IranThe empire remained largely at peace with the Ottomans while watching geopolitical shifts toward the Mughals in the east and Russia in the north. After Abbas II's death in 1666, his son Sulayman I succeeded him, opening a new round of court struggles in the late Safavid period.

Sources

Abbas II | Safavid shah https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abbas-II
Safavid dynasty https://www.britannica.com/topic/Safavid-dynasty