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A Persian Brief History – 1st Chapter
1359, May - Renewal of the King of Kings title, the Achaemenid Persian Empire, which arose on the Iranian plateau in the hands of the mythical Cyrus, swept across Mesopotamia, across the Levant, into Anatolia and to the gates of Europe. Persian Emperors have always yearned to surpass this mark. The Achaemenid government managed to maintain control of a vast empire through decentralization and royal roads, so loyal satrapies managed to maintain their relative independence to govern their lands, messengers could be quickly dispatched to inform the King's pleasures. Persian armies were common across all edges of the empire, and each had its own specificity and fought with its own style.
1359, September – War of Gulshan, declared in September 1359 against the Emirate of Sarbadar. 8,000 troops commanded by Crown Prince Abu'l Fawaris Djamal Muzaffarid invade the border province. By October the occupation would be completed.
1358, February – A conspiracy achieves success at the court in Shiraz, the beloved Abu'l Fawaris Djamal Muzaffarid dies, in which case an accident would be the cause, but soon talks about conspiracies appear from the mouths of the city's populace, after a few days the murderers are caught, they admit that they were working for the Crown Prince's brother, who is soon afterwards publicly condemned and blinded as punishment, thus losing his inheritance. In this way, a newborn named Uwais Muzaffarid becomes the heir, and his mother Kirama Ghilzai the first wife of the Shah.
1360, May – In command of the 1st Army is placed Mubariz al-Din Muhammad who defeats a force of 4,000 enemies in the Battle of Shahrud. In this way, it would make it possible to take the cities of Bastam and Khvaf by August.
1361, July – By that date, almost the entire Emirate had already been occupied by Mubariz's forces, the war ended with the Kingdom of Fars incorporating more than 80% of enemy territory. Soon the construction of a Fort starts in the newly conquered province of Sabzevar.
The taking of territories and the construction of a fort completely emptied the coffers of Fars, in addition to the situation of the death of Abu'l Fawaris Djamal causing national stability to collapse.
1362, January – The throne of the Chupanids becomes vacant, there appears an opportunity to conquer the whole territory, the Sultanate of the Jalayirids enter the dispute for the throne, the Shah Mubariz al-Din Muhammad without choice declares war on the Chupanids, starting again the warlike movements.
1362, September - In the first months of the war, the Chupanids enter the territory of Fars, meanwhile the 1st Army occupies the territory of Markazi, but after a hunt for the enemy army, the two forces end up confronting each other in the Battle of Isfahan, the forces of Akhi are utterly destroyed by the army of Fars, and the opportunity appears for a further advance into enemy territory, while the Jalayirids take the upper hand against Fars. While the 1st Army makes its way to Hamadan.
1363, May - After nearly a year, Fars forces conquer Hamadan, Qasr-e-Shirin, Kordestan, Urmia and Maragheh, while Jalayirid forces are forced to wage war in their territory against the Chupanids.
1363, June - The siege begins on the city of Tabriz, the capital of the Chupanids, but a little over 7,000 soldiers are not enough to take the walls, so nearly 1,000 mercenaries are recruited in Maragheh, yet the difficulties continue, and the General Mubariz ad-Din spends months waiting for reinforcements from Isfahan, which only arrive in December.
1364, March – After almost 1 year of siege, the defenses of Tabriz surrender, Mubariz ad-Din gloriously enters with his army in the city, the war officially ends there. Whereas now it becomes a defensive war, against the forces of the Jalayrids.
1364, June - The forces of Fars and the Jalayirids start the Battle of Qasvin, Shaikh Uvais starts defending well, his troops at the beginning of the battle were superior, but Mubariz ad-Din manages to win anyway, annihilating all the enemy cavalry in the dry lands.
1364, December - Now with nearly 13,000 troops, with 3,000 of them allied, Mubariz's forces again defeat the rest of the army in the Battle of Fars, impetuously Shaikh Uvais had tried to besiege the city of Shiraz months before.
1366, April - For another two years the war continued, the south of the region of Mashriq had almost all been conquered, until the siege of Baghdad began in March, but the army of the Jalayrids returned in force, 6,000 soldiers commanded by Shaikh Uvais attacked almost 10,000 soldiers from Fars, Syunia and Armenia in the Battle of Baghdad, but Shaikh would lose the battle, losing over 2,000 of his men, while on the Fars side not a single knight would die that day, but about 1,000 of footmen soldiers would perish.
1366, October – The siege of Baghdad would be won in October, the capital of the Jalayirids, with this conquest the war ends with the glorious victory of Fars. That would incorporate all the territory of the Chupanids, in addition to taking the provinces of Dezful, Izeh, Badinam and Bitlis from the Sultanate of the Jalayirids, starting a historical rivalry with Sultan Shaikh Uvais Jalayrid.
The great achievement of the war turns out to be the city of Tabriz, an important intellectual and art center in the region, in addition to being so important in production and trade, the city has about 90,000 inhabitants, the largest in the Persian region, over time, and recovery from wars, could rival Shiraz in importance to the Kingdom of Fars.
