Tabrīz was made the capital of the Mongol Il-Khan Maḥmūd Ghāzān (1295–1304) and his successor. In 1392 it was taken by Timur (Tamerlane), a Turkic conqueror, and some decades later the Kara Koyunlu Turkmen made Tabrīz their capital. Under their rule the city's Blue Mosque was built.
Tabriz is a county in East Azerbaijan Province of Iran and it is a centre of Azerbaijani culture. Azerbaijani is the language spoken in Tabriz and most of the people self-identify as Shia Muslim.
Between 1585 and 1603, Tabriz was under occupation by Ottomans. After it was retaken by the Safavids under Abbas I of Persia, the city grew as a major commerce centre, conducting trade with the Ottoman Empire, Russia, and the Caucasus.
Most of Tabrizi people speak “Azerbaijani Turkish” language but there is also an Armenian minority who speaks Armenian language. Tabriz was Iran's capital during the dynasties of Qara Qoyunlu, Aq Qoyunlu & Safavides (the first capital of Shia Islam in the world) and was Iran's crown predominantly during Qajar dynasty.
The Turkish-speaking population in Iran is the result of a long history that began in the eleventh century with the invasion of Iran by the Saljuki Turks and lasted to the long ruling Turkic-speaking tribes such as the Safavids (1501-1736) who founded modern Iran in the sixteenth century and the Qajars (1786-1923).
All three are very different, Arabic being Semitic, Farsi being Aryan (Indo-European) and Turkish being an Altaic (more or less Mongolian area) language. Both Turkish and Farsi have a lot of Arabic loan words, and Turkish has a few Farsi loan words too. That's it, though. All three are very different.
BCE The earliest elements of the present Tabriz are claimed to be built either at the time of the early Sassanids in the 3rd or 4th century AD, or later in the 7th century. The Middle Persian name of the city was T'awrēš. 8th C. CE – Tabriz Bazaar construction begins.
The siege of Tabriz was a military conflict during the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1603–1618. As a result of a successful siege, Tabriz was returned to the Safavids after 18 years of Ottoman rule.
The Safavid army was able to capture Tabriz on 21 October 1603. For the first time, the Iranians made great use of their artillery and the town – which had been ruined by Ottoman occupation – soon fell.
The Islamization of Iran was the spread of Islam in formerly Sassanid Iran as a result of the Muslim conquest of the empire in 633–654. It was a long process by which Islam, though initially rejected, eventually spread among the population on the Iranian Plateau.
Iran and Turkey are not Arab countries and their primary languages are Farsi and Turkish respectively. Arab countries have a rich diversity of ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. These include Kurds, Armenians, Berbers and others. There are over 300 million Arabs.
Changes in the religious make-up of nowadays both nations changed drastically from that time and on. In 1500 the Safavid Shah Ismail I undertook the conquering of Iran and Azerbaijan and commenced a policy of forced conversion of Sunni Muslims to Shia Islam. Many Sunnis were murdered.
During the Sarbadārid uprising, the epidemic caused the destruction of the Mongol army led by Mowlānā Zada Bokhāri that was attacking Samarqand (ibid.). A few years later, in 1369/70, a major plague swept through Tabriz.
Tabriz has been a place of cultural exchange since antiquity and its historic bazaar complex is one of the most important commercial centres on the Silk Road. Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex consists of a series of interconnected, covered, brick structures, buildings, and enclosed spaces for different functions.
Fearing Baku's intentions to fuel secessionism inside its borders, Iran provided vital backing to Armenia in its war against Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which dragged on from 1988 to 1994 and ended in an inconclusive cease-fire.” Iran's siding with Armenia during the first Nagorno-Karabakh ...
The assessment of genetic distances reveals that the Iranian Azeris are mixed population with substantial North Caucasian genetic contribution being genetically much closer to their immediate neighboring ethnic groups.
Tabriz is "an open space museum" "the city of souvenirs" and "the capital of Iran's candy & sweet" are other names for this beautiful city. This old city with a collection of the best historical, natural, and sociological monuments is the top Iranian western tourism destination.
In terms of difficulty of the languages in the region, Turkish appears to be the easiest, but Persian is the most closely related to English, though the script may make it challenging, and Arabic is obviously the most difficult.
What language was spoken in Turkey before Turkish?
By the time these Turkic immigrants reached Anatolia in the Seljuk dynasty, Oghuz Turkic was the predominant dialect. This is the direct ancestor of the current language in Turkey – the same version taught when learning Turkish today. Adopting Islam in the 10th century, the Seljuq Empire also acquired Arabic.
