Battle of Chaldiran
Ottoman cannon defeat Shah Ismail's army
Ottoman sultan Selim I crushed Shah Ismail I's army thanks to artillery and musket-armed janissaries. The Ottomans took eastern Anatolia, and the Sunni–Shia rivalry of the two empires shaped the region for generations.
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