Reign of Shah Ismail (1 janv. 1501 – 1 janv. 1524)
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 proclaimed that official religion of his realm would be twelve Shiism, and he procceeded to impose it, by force when necessary, on the formerly Sunni population. Over the next decade he seized control of the Iranian plateau and launed expeditions into Caucasus, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and central Asia 
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