Back حملة نادر شاه في بلاد الرافدين Arabic Nadir xanın Mesopotamiyaya birinci yürüşü Azerbaijani اردوکشی نادرشاه به بینالنهرین Persian Campagna di Nadir in Mesopotamia Italian Месопотамская кампания Надир-шаха Russian
| Mesopotamian Campaign | |||||||||
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| Part of the Ottoman–Persian War (1730–35) and Nader's Campaigns | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Safavid Empire |
 Ottoman Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Nader |
Topal Osman Pasha † Ahmad Pasha | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 100,000+ | 100,000+ | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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Baghdad: Unknown Samarra: ~30,000 Kirkuk: Negligible |
Baghdad: ~60,000 civilians Samarra: 20,000 Kirkuk: 20,000 | ||||||||
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The Mesopotamian Campaign of 1732-1733 was a military conflict during the eventful Perso-Ottoman war of 1730-1735. As a direct result of Tahmasp II's blunders in his ill fated invasion of the Ottoman Caucasus all of Nader's previous gains in the theatre were lost and a humiliating treaty had been signed giving away hegemony over the Caucasus to Istanbul. This settlement gave Nader the authority to force Tahmasp's abdication and resume the war against the Turks by launching an invasion of Ottoman Iraq.