Battle of Sangan

Sangan Expedition
Part of Nader's Campaigns
DateJuly–October 1727
Location
Result Safavid victory
Territorial
changes
Nader Shah secures the Khaf and Qa'in regions for the Safavids
Belligerents
Safavid loyalists Abdali Afghans
Sangani Rebels
Commanders and leaders
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, romanizedNabard-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]

  1. ^ L. Lockhart (1938). Nadir Shah. pp. 28, 29.