Schlacht von Tschaldiran

Schlacht von Tschaldiran
Iranischs Schlachtdänkmol, wo 2003 ufgstellt worde isch.
Datum 23. August 1514 Ort Ostanatolie westlig vo Täbris bi Chaldoran Usgang Siig vom Osmanische Riich
Konfliktparteie
S türkische Riich vo de Osmane	S persische Riich vo de Safawide
Befählshaber
Sultan Selim I.	Schah Ismail I.
Truppesterki
60'000[1] bis 200.000[2][3]	80'000[2][3]
Verlust
Umbekannt	Umbekannt, aber schweer

D Schlacht bi Tschaldiran (au Çaldıran, Çaldiran, Tschāldirān, persisch چالدران‎, DMG Čāldirān) het am 23. August 1514 in dr Nööchi vo Tschaldiran in Ostanatolie zwüschen em Osmanische Riich under em Sultan Selim I. und de Safawide vom Persische Riich under em Schah Ismail I. stattgfunde. Iire Usgang isch en entschäidende Siig für d Osmane gsi. D Osmane häi drvo brofitiert, ass si Kanoone iigsetzt häi, wääred d Kizilbasch-Soldate vo de Safawide sonigi Waffe as uneerehaft abgleent häi.

1. ↑ Keegan & Wheatcroft, Who's Who in Military History, Routledge, 1996. p. 268: „In 1515 Selim marched east with some 60,000 men; a proportion of these were skilled Janissaries, certainly the best infantry in Asia, and the sipahis, equally well-trained and disciplined cavalry. [...] The Persian army, under Shah Ismail, was almost entirely composed of Turcoman tribal levies, a courageous but ill-disciplined cavalry army. Slightly inferior in numbers to the Turks, their charges broke against the Janissaries, who had taken up fixed positions behind rudimentary field works.“
2. ↑ ^{2,0 2,1} H.A.R. Gibb & H. Bowen, Islamic society and the West, i/2, Oxford, 1957, p. 189
3. ↑ ^{3,0 3,1} Roger M. Savory, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Safawids, Online Edition 2005