a six-month-long siege of Isfahan, the capital of the Safavid dynasty of Iran, by the Hotaki-led Afghan army. It lasted from March to October 1722

2007/12/15 · The siege of Isfahan in 1722 by the Afghan invaders, the massacre of its denizens, the pillaging of the city's wealth, and the wholesale ...

The Battle of Gulnabad was fought between the military forces from Hotaki Dynasty and the army of the Safavid Empire on Sunday, March 8, 1722.

Most accounts of its beauty refer to the Safavid period: Isfahan was the storied capital of Iran from 1598 to 1722 ... massacre in 1387. The city would ...

2020/05/28 · Most of the papers focused on the modern era, especially the period from 1597 to 1722, when Isfahan served as capital of the Safavid empire and ...

The house in Isfahan then remained a small isolated community. In 1722 Isfahan was invaded from Afghanistan and a great massacre of its citizens took place.

2021/05/09 · Mahmud's siege of Isfahan lasted from March to October, 1722. Lacking artillery, he was forced to resort to a long blockade in the hope of ...

In retribution, Timur ordered the massacre of the city residents, and his soldiers killed a reported 70,000 citizens. An eye-witness counted more than 28 towers ...

Mahmud Shah bin Mirwais was an Afghan ruler of Hotak Dynasty who overthrew the heavily declined Safavid Dynasty to briefly become the King of Persia from 1722 ...