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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