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Tahmasp I

1514 - 1576

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Tahmasp I (Persian: طهماسب یکم, romanized: Ṭahmāsb or تهماسب یکم Tahmâsb; 22 February 1514 – 14 May 1576) was the second shah of Safavid Iran from 1524 until his death in 1576. He was the eldest son of Shah Ismail I and his principal consort, Tajlu Khanum. Tahmasp ascended the throne after the death of his father on 23 May 1524. The first years of Tahmasp's reign were marked by civil wars between the Qizilbash leaders until 1532, when he asserted his authority and began an absolute monarchy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tahmasp I has received more than 733,977 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Tahmasp I is the 530th most popular politician (down from 492nd in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Iran (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Iranian Politician.

Tahmasp I was the second shah of the Safavid dynasty. He is most famous for his military conquests and his patronage of the arts.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tahmasp I ranks 530 out of 19,576. Before him are Zhou Enlai, Frederick William I of Prussia, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, Amin al-Husseini, Henry VI of England, and Herbert Hoover. After him are Friedrich Ebert, Emperor Jimmu, Umberto II of Italy, Philip V of France, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, and Agrippina the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1514, Tahmasp I ranks 2. Before him is Andreas Vesalius. After him are John Knox, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Philibert de l'Orme, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Claude Goudimel, Thomas Culpeper, Hai Rui, Baba Nobuharu, and Virgil Solis. Among people deceased in 1576, Tahmasp I ranks 3. Before him are Titian, and Gerolamo Cardano. After him are Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, Aloysius Lilius, Hans Sachs, Frederick III, Elector Palatine, Isabella de' Medici, Bálint Bakfark, Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, Bartolomé Carranza, and John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Tahmasp I ranks 25 out of 631. Before him are Cambyses II (-550), Malik-Shah I (1055), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), Tughril (990), Al-Tabari (839), and Bodhidharma (483). After him are Nader Shah (1688), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), Khosrow I (501), Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), Reza Shah (1878), and Salman the Persian (568).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Tahmasp I ranks 9. Before him are Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Ali Khamenei (1939), Darius III (-380), Harun al-Rashid (766), Cambyses II (-550), and Malik-Shah I (1055). After him are Nader Shah (1688), Khosrow I (501), Reza Shah (1878), Hassan Rouhani (1948), Darius II (-475), and Nizam al-Mulk (1018).

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