| Capture of Baghdad (1638) | |||||||||
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| Part of Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–1639) | |||||||||
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Verovering_van_Bagdad_door_de_Turken,_1638,_RP-P-1896-A-19368-1955.jpg) Conquest of Baghdad by the Ottoman, 1638. Work by Caspar Luyken. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Safavid Empire |
 Ottoman Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Saru Khan † |
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| Strength | |||||||||
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40,000 infantry 211 fortified city towers[1] 100 cannons |
35,000 infantry 75,000 cavalry 200 cannons Not in combat: 8,000 (lağımcı) miners and sappers[1] 24,000 (beldar) military laborers [1] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| High | High[2] | ||||||||
| Most of the city residents were massacred by the Ottomans after the capture.[1] | |||||||||
The recapture of Baghdad was the second conquest of the city by the Ottoman Empire as a part of the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639.
- ^ a b c d Mikaberidze, Alexander (2011). Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 177. ISBN 9781598843378.
- ^ Kia 2017, p. 131.