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Episode 8.8 - Abbas the Great

The Almost Forgotten by Charles Fliegel

May 25, 2022Society & Culture

Abbas the Great, the shah of the Safavid empire, was great military leader, reformer, and diplomat. He took a shrinking, disintegrating Persian empire and enabled it to grow its greatest extent, in no small part because...

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Episode 8.8 - Abbas the Great is an episode from The Almost Forgotten by Charles Fliegel. Abbas the Great, the shah of the Safavid empire, was great military leader, reformer, and diplomat. He took a shrinking, disintegrating Persian empire...

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Abbas the Great, the shah of the Safavid empire, was great military leader, reformer, and diplomat. He took a shrinking, disintegrating Persian empire and enabled it to grow its greatest extent, in no small part because of his own personal military campaigns

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Published May 25, 2022