| Sangan Expedition | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Nader's Campaigns | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Safavid loyalists |
Abdali Afghans Sangani Rebels | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Tahmasp II (nominal)Nader (actual) |
Hussein Sultan of Sistan Malik Kalb 'Ali Malik Lutf 'Ali | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 800 | 7,000–8,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Negligible | 500 killed | ||||||||
The Battle of Sangan (Persian: نبرد سنگان, romanized: Nabard-e Sangān), was an engagement involving the Loyalist forces of Tahmasp II of Safavid Iran led by Nader and the Abdali Afghan tribes in and further beyond southern Khorasan in the autumn of 1727. This armed struggle was one of the initial battles between the resurgent Safavid cause and that of the Afghans. The engagement technically ended in a Safavid victory.[1]
- ^ L. Lockhart (1938). Nadir Shah. pp. 28, 29.