Shah Ismail I
1487 CE–1524 CE · Tabriz
Shah Ismail I (1487–1524) founded the Safavid dynasty, proclaiming himself shah at Tabriz in 1501 while still a youth. He reunified Iran under a single crown and established Twelver Shiʿism as the state religion, a decision that shaped Iranian identity to the present day. Also a gifted poet in Azerbaijani Turkish, his expansion was checked by a major defeat to the Ottomans at Chaldiran in 1514.
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- Vasili III· 1479 CE–1533 CE
- Babur· 1483 CE–1530 CE
- Askia Muhammad I· –1538 CE
- Afonso I of Kongo· –1543 CE
- Manco Inca Yupanqui· –1544 CE
- Cacamatzin· 1483 CE–1520 CE
- Cuauhtémoc· 1495 CE–1525 CE
- Krishnadevaraya· 1471 CE–1529 CE
- Cuitláhuac· 1476 CE–1520 CE
- Atahualpa· –1533 CE
- Huáscar· 1495 CE–1532 CE
- Sher Shah Suri· 1486 CE–1545 CE
- Selim I· 1470 CE–1520 CE
- Tangáxoan II (Tzintzicha Tangaxoan)· –1530 CE
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