Treaty of Constantinople Partitions Persia

November 1, 1724

With Safavid Persia in chaos after the Afghan invasion, the Russian and Ottoman empires agreed to divide its Caucasian and western provinces between themselves. Peter had already taken the Caspian coast; now the Ottomans took Tabriz and Erevan. Persian sovereignty was a territory the neighbors walked across at will. Nader Shah would spend the next decade expelling both powers and restoring Iran's shattered borders.