Founding of Safavid Iran
Shah Ismail makes Shia Islam the faith of all Iran
Ismail I was proclaimed shah in Tabriz and made Twelver Shia Islam the state religion. The Safavid state reunified Iran and for two centuries was the Ottoman Empire's chief rival in the east.
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