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The battle of Chaldiran and the entry into Tabriz

Date: 1514-08-23~

Chaldiran, August 1514 — Selim forced the issue before winter, sent the shah a dervish's cloak, beads, bowl and staff to mock his Sufi lineage, killed his envoy, then crushed the Safavid army and entered Tabriz; Kurdistan and Diyarbakir became Ottoman .

Sources: source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi