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The Safavid empire was the last Persian state to rule Iraq/Mesopotamia, whose history was linked with Iran's for centuries. Their rule over it was relatively short, however, and they lost control of the region to the Ottoman Empire during the 1530s. They briefly reconquered it during the reign...

Instead of being sacked and murdered, Amir Kabir remains in the good graces of the Shah and continues to pursue reform. Many have suggested this is Iran's best shot at modernization/industrialization, do you think that is true? What happens to the nobility that resisted him? With a weaker Shah...

Original Map by u/--Faris-- on Reddit How would this Effect Religion in Rome and Persia? How different would the Gospels be ITTL? How does effect religion and cultures in Armenia and Ethiopia, the oldest states to adopt Christianity? How different would Christianity be?

The move that secured the Macedonian victory at Gaugamela - a massive charge straight into the Persian center, where Darius III was - was an immensely risky gamble for Alexander. Case in point, his manouver created a gap in his army's line, one which was exploited by a detachment of Persian and...

Khosrow II, the last of the "great" Sassanid shahs (the quotes are because he was actually pretty terrible), began his reign under very inauspicious circumstances: his father, the destructively paranoid Hormizd IV, had been murdered, the empire was locked in a long, bloody and fruitless war with...

The Battle of Samarra was the only defeat Nader-not-yet-Shah ever suffered in his entire career. Following Tahmasp II's disastrous offensive into the Caucasus in 1731, Nader sought to force the Ottomans to hand back the territories lost in that campaign by capturing Baghdad. Unfortunately for...

The Russo Persian War of 1804-1813 was simultaneous to, and deeply affected by, the Napoleonic Wars. The Qajar dynasty, young, unstable and weak, sought foreign aid to turn its army into a force capable of standing up to the Russians, but the shifting dynamics in Europe screwed them over: the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1826%E2%80%931828) Following more than a decade of military reform, spearheaded by crown prince Abbas Mirza, and a minor but victorious border war against the Ottoman Empire, the Qajar dynasty attempted to reconquer the territories it lost to the...

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar was the first member of the Qajar dynasty to rule Iran, reunifying a country which had been torn apart by countless civil wars ever since the death of Karim Khan Zand in 1779. A brilliant but brutal conqueror, he reasserted Iranian authority over northern Azerbaijan and...

What if Cyrus the Younger survived the Battle of Cunaxa and overthrew his older brother Artaxerxes II? He had administrative experience thanks to his stint as satrap of Lydia, and, most famously, had ten thousand Greek mercenaries in his army, one of whom was Xenophon. What would he be like as...

The Safavid dynasty briefly retook Baghdad from the Ottomans in 1624 and held it for 14 years, during which Constantinople tried and failed to recapture the city several times before Murad IV finally succeeded in 1638. The Ottoman Empire's control of Mesopotamia, which lasted until its...

Peroz I was Shah of the Sasanian Empire from 459 to 484. He fought three wars against the Hephthalites during his reign, and while they were all defeats, the last one was especially catastrophic since it ended with his death and that of several prominent nobles in a battle near Herat, after...

I'm no expert at map making, obviously my maps aren't something worth mentioning in term of sophistication. However, I'm rather attached to the first map I made after learning to use Paint.net so I decided to build it in detail. I'm partly inspired by this thread by @TemporalRenegade which...

With a POD no earlier than 600 AD wank the Sassanid Empire and Zarathustrianism as much as possible.

Lets say that Ismail listens to Mohammad Khan Ustajlu and does not order a frontal charge on the Ottomans and instead. Manages to suprise and ambush the Ottoman army. Destroying 60% of it and killing Selim. What kind of effects would such a event result in?

Isfahan, 1715 Iranian History is dominated by tales of the “Rusul-u-Muluk”, or Prophets and Princes. From Zoroaster to Cyrus the Great, heroic figures bringing revelation or the sword have not only shaped the history of the Iranian people, but have inspired folk-stories and literature focusing...

Recently, i've been thinking about the Great Jewish Revolt of 66-71 AD, and one idea popped into my head (perhaps the only way for the jews to estabilish a non-ephemeral independent state): a helping hand from the Parthian Empire. At the time of the revolt, the parthian king-of-kings was...

How plausible is it for the Parthian Empire, which suceeded the Seleucid Empire and preceded the Sassanian Empire, to become a power comparable or at least almost comparable to Rome when it comes to its territory and military prowess? I was thinking about Parthia managing to keep a hold of...

The Sassanid-instigated Siege Of Constantinople pitted the Eastern Roman Empire against a coalition between the Sassanid Persian Empire in the eastern side of the Bosphorus and the Avar Khaganate in the western side. In the end, the byzantines managed to hold out. But what if the perso-avar...