Word: caldiran
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...called The Inflexible, and never did he have greater need of his stubbornness than when he marched on Persia. For 116 days the wily Shah of Persia dodged and retreated, laying waste the land as he did. But finally the two hosts met near the town of Caldiran in what is now eastern Turkey. The Ottoman army had guns, the Persians did not; and at the end of that battle in 1514, 25,000 Persian horsemen lay dead. For the Shah, the defeat was particularly humiliating. Though he escaped with his life, he left behind not only his favorite wife...
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