State · 1501 – 1736

Safavid dynasty

A state of 1501 – 1736 — 235 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was followed by Afsharid dynasty. The atlas records 21 things within it — wars and battles 11 · unrest and atrocity 1 · natural disasters 2 · people 6 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 10 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 235 years; 1501 – 1736
Rulers: 10; the list of Safavid monarchs
Most ground: 2.85 million km²; in 1512
Within it: 21; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Safavid dynasty in 1512, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Safavid dynasty in 1512, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.85 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Safavid dynasty in 1512, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Safavid dynasty in 1734, last mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

Afsharid dynasty · followed by · 1736 – 1796

Rulers

The line of list of Safavid monarchs.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Ismail I	1502 – 1524	22 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Tahmasp I	1524 – 1576	52 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Ismail II	1576 – 1577	1 year	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Mohammad Khodabanda	1578 – 1587	9 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Abbas the Great	1588 – 1629	41 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Safi of Persia	1629 – 1642	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	grandchild
Abbas II of Persia	1642 – 1666	24 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Suleiman I of Persia	1666 – 1694	28 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Soltan Hoseyn	1694 – 1722	28 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Tahmasp II	1729 – 1732	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child

10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 1502 – 1732. Median reign 23 years. 3 of 9 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

1.39 million km² in 1511, 200 km² in 1736; at its largest 2.82 million km² in 1631. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedSafavid Flag · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1500 – 15995 rows · 3 wars and battles

Ottoman–Safavid War · war · 1532 – 1555
Iskandar Beg Munshi · writer · 1560 – 1634
Firishta · writer · 1560 – 1620
Siege of Van · battle · 1548
Battle of Herat · battle · 1598

1600 – 16999 rows · 4 wars and battles

Persepolis · discovery · 1621
Suleiman I of Persia · ruler · 1648 – 1694
1679 Armenia earthquake · disaster · 1679
Nazo Tokhi · writer · 1651 – 1717
Siege of Baghdad · battle · 1638
1667 Shamakhi earthquake · disaster · 1667
Abbas I's Kakhetian and Kartlian campaigns · battle · 1614 – 1617
Battle of Marabda · battle · 1625

and 1 more in the atlas.

1700 – 17997 rows · 4 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Karim Khan Zand · person · 1705 – 1779
Tahmasp II · ruler · 1704 – 1740
Battle of Gulnabad · battle · 1722
Siege of Isfahan · battle · 1722
Armenian liberation struggle · unrest · 1722
Ottoman–Persian War (1722–1726) · war · 1722 – 1727
Battle of Meghri · battle · 1725

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood235 years
stood longer than 67% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,847,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 95% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.9
had more wars on record per century than 92% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median24 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 72% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record10
has more rulers on record than 80% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1477 – 1760, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1512, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q161205 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.