Safavid conquest of Shirvan

Safavid conquest of Shirvan
Part of Campaigns of Ismail I
The battle between the young Ismail and Shah Farrukh Yassar of Shirvan
Date December 1500[1] - 1501 Location Shirvan (present-day Azerbaijan Republic and southern Dagestan) Result Decisive Safavid victory Territory of the Shirvanshahs is incorporated by the Safavids Dynastic Shirvanshah line is allowed to remain in power under Safavid suzerainty for some more years
Belligerents
Safavid order	Shirvanshahs
Commanders and leaders
Ismail (leader of the Safavid order) Hossein Beg Laleh Shamlu Mohammad Beg Ustajlu	Farrukh Yassar † Bahram Beg (Shirvanshah's son) Gazi Beg (Shirvanshah's son)
Strength
7,000 Qizilbash	27,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Entire army

(1803) الهجوم على النجف

The conquest of Shirvan was the first campaign of Ismail, the leader of the Safavid order. In late 1500, Ismail marched into Shirvan, and, despite heavily outnumbered, decisively defeated the then incumbent Shirvanshah Farrukh Yassar in a pitched battle, in which the latter and his entire army were killed. The conquest resulted in the toppling of the Shirvanshahs as autonomous rulers, who had ruled large parts of the Caucasus for centuries, and the incorporation of their domain.