persia

The Safavid dynasty briefly retook Baghdad from the Ottomans in 1624 and held it for 14 years, during which Constantinople tried and failed to recapture the city several times before Murad IV finally succeeded in 1638. The Ottoman Empire's control of Mesopotamia, which lasted until its...

The Hotak Dynasty was a Afghan/Pashtun Dynasty that rose after revolting against the Safavids. They then took over Persia, becoming rulers of Persia, which gave way to the final fall of the Safavids, Rise of Nader Shah and the Afsharid Dynasty, and the Rise of the Afghan Durrani Empire. What...

Let's say something around the late 15th or early 16th centuries the Ottomans decide to embark on campaign to recreate the Achaemenid Empire (or Alexander's Empire) by invading east and conquering as much of Egypt, Cyrenaica, the Caucasus, Iraq, Persia, Afghanistan, and other parts of Central...

Peroz I was Shah of the Sasanian Empire from 459 to 484. He fought three wars against the Hephthalites during his reign, and while they were all defeats, the last one was especially catastrophic since it ended with his death and that of several prominent nobles in a battle near Herat, after...

What if something like this had come about? A senior-ish Pahlavi (Persian) royal princess who could obviously not become Shah of Iran (being female) nor his wife setting her eyes on becoming Queen Consort of the Afghan king instead? Could be a love marriage or political, doesn’t matter, but...

This scenario would differ considerably from a scenario where the Persians don’t expand at all and their revolt is crushed by the Medians in very significant ways, in that we’d already have evidence for the “Persian interlude” establishing their presence and the sheer size of their empire, and...

Let's say that the empire avoids the Ottoman-Persian Wars and manages to reform and rebound to the best of their ability. After that they have a series of competent military shahs (not necessarily consecutively) that reconquer as much of Middle-East, Central Asia and Anatolia as logistically...

Like the title says, how much impacts and butterfly effects will happen on Iran because of the existence of successfully industrialized China in 19th century and beyond, whether China is under Qing or different Chinese dynasty who has interests of expanding into Central Asia? Which of Persian...

Otl, after the roman empire was split, the east quickly became more wealthy and more centralized- exactly its downfall as it was seen as a bigger prize. Between the endless barbarian incursions (very near most of their homelands in the carpathian and black sea regions), the persians, and...

Ramadan 742 ( February 1342) Sarai, Khanate of the Golden horde sigh of relief Tini Beg was tensed the entire night, not knowing whether the harbingers of death will bring him good news. Perhaps Allah knows what's best and he should quit being a scaredy-cat. This morning he'll finally see the...

The House of Karen was one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran during the Parthian and Sasanian Empires. What if they had formed a Persian Empire of their own at some point?

AHC: No Zoroastrianism (POD of 600 BC) In this alternate history challenge you need to find a way to prevent Zoroastrianism from existing, What would happen if Zoroastrianism never existed? How will this effect the Pre-Islamic Iranian Civilizations or the cultures surrounding it? Would it...

As in the title, what happens if the Turks stay located in their homeland on the Steppe instead of migrating out into Eastern Europe, Greater Iran and India. I am particuarly interested in the effects of no Oghuz expansion (Seljuks, Turkmans, Dehli Sultanate etc.).

What is the latest possible date at which Persia can reasonably become a Christian majority nation? Or is this scenario just implausible to begin with?

In October 539 BC, when Cyrus the Great conquered the Neo-Babylonian empire, he faced surprisingly little resistance, for which various explanations have been found, suggesting the unpopularity the favoritism the previous Babylonian monarch Nabonidus had for the god Sin over Babylon's...

Now that I've got your attention out to say, but this happened IOTL! I am not talking about the actual Byzantine Empire and the Macedonian dynasty, but it occurred to me today just how many parallels that a hypothetical Macedonian Empire under a Philip II that survived assassination would have...

Basically, what butterfly effects would cause a surviving Sassanid Empire? The POD is that Khosrow II is persuaded to end the war with the Byzantines in 610 and manages to fend off the Rashidun conquest. The muslim conquest of North Africa and the Iberian peninsula still happens in this timeline.

So the son of Peroz III, Narseih was going to Persia, or more specifically the Persian steppes to be restored to the sassanian throne with the aid of a noble named Pei with the backing of the Tang Dynasty. Apparently the plan was to liberate transoxiana, and then restore Peroz III's rump state...

In 499 BC, when the Ionian revolt flared up, Aristagoras, tyrant of Miletus and instigator of the rebellion, traveled to mainland Greece to seek support for the rebellion. While Cleomenes I was initially convinced to intervene and invade the heart of Persia, according to Herodotus at least, he...

While looking from a broad macro-historical perspective the conquests were quick and inevitable after the devastation of the war of 602-628 and the various internal crises both the Byzantines and Sassanids had to deal with afterward, Umar(RA), after defeating the Byzantines and Sassanids at...