Renaissance · Middle East · War

1638

Siege of Baghdad by the Ottomans

1638

Sultan Murad IV, the last Ottoman sultan to lead an army in person, besieged Baghdad for forty days and wrested it from Safavid Persia in a blood-soaked final assault. The Treaty of Zuhab that followed drew the Ottoman-Persian frontier roughly where the Iraq-Iran border stands today, a line scratched in seventeenth-century gunpowder.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: 1629: Shah Abbas the Great Dies
After: 1645: Venetians Besiege Ottoman Crete

Before and after in War

Before: 1637: Pequot War Ends
After: January 14, 1641: Dutch Capture Malacca

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Siege of Baghdad (1638)