Enlightenment · Middle East · War
1722
Fall of Isfahan to the Ghilzai Afghans
March 8, 1722
After a six-month siege that starved the Safavid capital to cannibalism, Mahmud Hotak's Afghans entered Isfahan. Shah Sultan Husayn surrendered his turban. The gardens of the Four Heavens burned. Two centuries of Safavid rule over Persia ended in a matter of weeks. The Persian throne itself would wander for a generation.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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