Lala Mustafa Pasha's Caucasian campaign
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Lala Mustafa Pasha's Caucasian campaign was a military expedition launched in 1578 by
Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–90)
.
History
The main objective of the campaign was to conquer the
throne of Kartli. [citation needed
]
The campaign, which was part of the greater war that lasted between 1578-1590, was largely successful. For around two decades after the end of the war, most of the regions conquered from the Iranian Safavids in the North and South Caucasus, remained in Ottoman hands.
See also
- Ottoman-Persian Wars
- Treaty of Istanbul (1590)
References
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- Georgian Soviet encyclopedia, vol. 7, pg. 211, Tb., 1984.