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Attempts of several Ottoman commanders () to retake the city following 1624, were fruitless. According to a legend only the sultans could capture the city. Murat was seen as a warrior hero and thus it seemed as his duty to campaign and regain Baghdad. He had been victorious against the Druze rebels a decade earlier and won a great victory at the Siege of Yerevan in 1635. In 1638 Ottoman Sultan Murat IV (five generation younger than Suleyman I) decided to recapture the city.

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  • Capture of Baghdad (1638)
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  • Attempts of several Ottoman commanders () to retake the city following 1624, were fruitless. According to a legend only the sultans could capture the city. Murat was seen as a warrior hero and thus it seemed as his duty to campaign and regain Baghdad. He had been victorious against the Druze rebels a decade earlier and won a great victory at the Siege of Yerevan in 1635. In 1638 Ottoman Sultan Murat IV (five generation younger than Suleyman I) decided to recapture the city.
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  • 200(xsd:integer)
  • 211(xsd:integer)
  • 24000(xsd:integer)
  • 35000(xsd:integer)
  • 40000(xsd:integer)
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  • not in combat: 8,000 miners and sappers
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Date
  • --11-15
Commander
  • 23(xsd:integer)
  • Grand Vizier Tayyar Mehmet Pasha
  • Murat IV
Territory
  • Ottomans recapture Baghdad, lower Mesopotamia, the mouths of the Euphrates and Tigris, northern Iraq and part of the Persian Gulf coast.
Caption
  • Portrait of Murad IV
Casualties
  • High
  • entire garrison
Result
  • Decisive Ottoman victory, Treaty of Zuhab
Notes
  • High
combatant
  • 23(xsd:integer)
Place
  • Baghdad, Iraq
Conflict
  • Siege of Baghdad
abstract
  • Attempts of several Ottoman commanders () to retake the city following 1624, were fruitless. According to a legend only the sultans could capture the city. Murat was seen as a warrior hero and thus it seemed as his duty to campaign and regain Baghdad. He had been victorious against the Druze rebels a decade earlier and won a great victory at the Siege of Yerevan in 1635. In 1638 Ottoman Sultan Murat IV (five generation younger than Suleyman I) decided to recapture the city. According to the eyewitness account of Zarain Agha the Ottoman mobilization for the siege of Baghdad was 108,589 men composed of 35,000 infantry in part Janissaries, and 73,589 cavalry.
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