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Tabriz came under Ottoman rule in 1585; Ottoman rule ended in 1736. It changed hands in between; there are 3 separate Ottoman periods. As the Safavid capital it changed hands again and again in the Ottoman-Persian wars.
After Chaldiran Selim I entered the Safavid capital on 6 September 1514 but did not keep it.
Sultan: Selim IOn Süleyman's campaign of the Two Iraqs the Ottomans entered the city again on 6 August 1534.
Sultan: Suleiman IÖzdemiroğlu Osman Pasha took the city on 25 September 1585 and strengthened it with new walls.
Sultan: Murad III · Event page →The Ottomans held the city until 21 October 1603, when Shah Abbas retook it.
Sultan: Mehmed IIIMurad IV entered the abandoned city and had it destroyed; the 1639 Treaty of Zuhab left it to the Safavids.
Sultan: Murad IVHow the total is counted: years of actual Ottoman rule are added up. Temporary occupations shorter than a year (that were reversed) are not subtracted; they appear as notes in the chronology.
On the atlas map the city lies in the region “Azerbaijan–Shirvan–Yerevan”. Map colours work at region level, so the city's own dates may differ from the region's by a few years.
Open the map in 1585Source: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, “TEBRİZ” (Turkish); text written for the atlas.