bayezid was the ottoman prince who took shelter under the safavid empire.
bayezid was the ottoman prince who took shelter under the safavid empire.
which ottoman prince took shelter under the safavid empire?
bayezid
şehzade bayezid (1525 – 25 september 1561) was an ottoman prince as the son of sultan suleiman the magnificent and his legal wife hürrem sultan. after the death of three of suleiman's sons, only bayezid and selim were alive. bayezid had a good skill in military tactic. after the death of sehzade mustafa (who was the heir apparent to the ottoman throne) bayezid became the popular heir to the ottoman throne among the army. through the 1550s, when suleiman was already in his 60s, a protracted competition for the throne between bayezid and selim was evident. bayezid had fallen into disfavor with his father – who was angered by bayezid's disobedience stemming from around the same years – as opposed to his brother selim (who would eventually succeed as selim ii). after being defeated in a battle near konya in 1559 by selim and sokullu mehmet pasha (with the help of the sultan's army), he fled to the neighbouring safavid empire, where he was lavishly received by tahmasp i. however, in 1561, on the continuous insistence of the sultan throughout his son's exile, and after several large payments, tahmasp allowed bayezid to be executed by agents of his own father.
şehzade bayezid
the weakest of these three territorial states, the safavid dynasty had 1/5th the population of the ottomans and 1/20th the population of the mughal empire, though numerically smaller the safavid empire was able to become a well respected and powerful nation from the 1500s until its fall in 1736. in 1514 the persian's faced a military defeat at the hands of the ottoman's, displaying the power of gunpowder. from then on the safavid would expand their military to include these weapons. like the other gunpowder empires, guns contributed to the persian's imperial success, but they had more formidable weapons in their arsenal. the safavid's were able to use the well respected persian culture and shia faith to tie it's people together and gain global recognition. this is evidenced by the mughal empire deferring to the safavid's in military matters and the fact that safavid officials could find positions in the mughal or ottoman empires easily. the safavid empire was united by the persian culture, the persian language, and the shia faith to unite its peoples but they still allowed the practice of other religions.
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