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The Earliest Account of the Battle of Chaldiran?

Willem Floor


Pages 371 - 395

DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.170.2.0371




This German broadsheet (1514) is catalogued and cited as being the contemporaneous account of the battle of Chaldiran. However, both the date and the contents of the text contradict this. The possible reason for its publication and the real battle it refers to are discussed here.

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