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Tahmasp I

1514 - 1576

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Tahmasp I (Persian: طهماسب یکم, romanized: Ṭahmāsb or تهماسب یکم Tahmâsb; 22 February 1514 – 14 May 1576) was the second shah of Safavid Iran from 1524 until his death in 1576. He was the eldest son of Shah Ismail I and his principal consort, the Aq Qoyunlu princess Tajlu Khanum. Tahmasp ascended the throne after the death of his father on 23 May 1524. The first years of Tahmasp's reign were marked by civil wars between the Qizilbash leaders until 1532, when he asserted his authority and began an absolute monarchy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tahmasp I is the 746th most popular politician (down from 530th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Iran (down from 25th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Iranian Politician.

Tahmasp I was the second shah of the Safavid dynasty. He is most famous for his military conquests and his patronage of the arts.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tahmasp I ranks 746 out of 19,576. Before him are Yesugei, Ptolemy III Euergetes, Taejong of Joseon, Ion Antonescu, Béla IV of Hungary, and Nursultan Nazarbayev. After him are Louis, Dauphin of France, Peter II of Russia, Moon Jae-in, Chun Doo-hwan, Umberto II of Italy, and Sokollu Mehmed Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1514, Tahmasp I ranks 2. Before him is Andreas Vesalius. After him are John Knox, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Philibert de l'Orme, Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Claude Goudimel, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Thomas Culpeper, Hai Rui, Virgil Solis, and Baba Nobuharu. Among people deceased in 1576, Tahmasp I ranks 4. Before him are Titian, Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Gerolamo Cardano. After him are Aloysius Lilius, Hans Sachs, Frederick III, Elector Palatine, Isabella de' Medici, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, Bartolomé Carranza, and Bálint Bakfark.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Tahmasp I ranks 27 out of 631. Before him are Cambyses II (-550), Al-Tabari (839), Bodhidharma (483), Malik-Shah I (1055), Tughril (990), and Xerxes II of Persia (-500). After him are Khosrow I (501), Ferdowsi (940), Nader Shah (1688), Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), and Nizam al-Mulk (1018).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Tahmasp I ranks 10. Before him are Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Darius III (-380), Ali Khamenei (1939), Cambyses II (-550), Malik-Shah I (1055), and Xerxes II of Persia (-500). After him are Khosrow I (501), Nader Shah (1688), Nizam al-Mulk (1018), Darius II (-475), Antiochus III the Great (-241), and Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247).

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