#chehel

The best things are under the ceiling #chehel sotun garden palace #isfahan (hier: Esfahan, Iran)

what the wall will tell you inside the #Chehel #Sotoun , The Battle of #Chaldiran or #Chaldoran.. "(#Persian: چالدران‎‎; Turkish: Çaldıran) occurred on 23 August 1514 and ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the #Safavid Empire. As a result, the Ottomans annexed eastern Anatolia and northern #Iraq for the first time from Safavid Iran. Despite brief #Iranian reconquerings over the course of the centuries by the Safavids as well as by successive Iranian states, the Ottomans would manage by the next bout of hostilities, the 1532-1555 war to fully conquer most the same territories annexed in the Chaldiran battle. By the Chaldiran war, the Ottomans as well gained temporary control of northwestern #Iran. The battle, however, was just the beginning of 41 years of destructive war and merely one of the many phases of the Ottoman-Persian Wars, which only ended in 1555 with the Treaty of Amasya. The #Ottomans generally had the upper hand, but the Persians for the most part held their ground.[vague] Safavid losses in Shia-dominated metropolitan regions of Persia, such as Luristan and Kermanshah, proved temporary, being quickly recovered from the Ottomans, but important Persian cities such as Tabriz were often the target of destructive Ottoman raids. An exception was Mesopotamia and Eastern Anatolia (Western Armenia) which although eventually taken back, they would be permanently lost to the Ottomans by the 1639 Treaty of Zuhab." -wikipedia.com #remnantsofthepast #love #history #wallpainting #painting #history #historic #visitiran #traveliranpersian #traveldiaries #travelgram #UNESCO #unescoworldheritage #worldheritage