Sie hielten sich für unbesiegbar. Dann kam die Artillerie. | Chaldiran 1514

They considered themselves invincible. Then came the artillery. | Chaldiran 1514 August 1514. Thousands of horsemen gallop across an open plain in eastern Anatolia. Many are not wearing full armor. Not because they lacked it, but because they believe their leader is divinely inspired and that nothing can harm them. Then the artillery opens fire. On one side: Shah Ismail I, who founded an empire at the age of fourteen and didn't lose a single war in a decade. On the other: Sultan Selim I, who deposed his own father and had his brothers executed to gain a free hand. What happened that day on the plain of Chaldiran was not just a battle. It was the end of a myth, the beginning of a new order in the Middle East, and the moment that opened the way to Mecca, Medina, and Cairo for the Ottomans. #Chaldiran #SelimI #ShahIsmail #OttomanEmpire #Safavids #History #Qizilbash #BattleOfChaldiran