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The Safavids (an Sufi Islamic empire developed after the raids of the Mongols and the Black Death in the 14th century) the land East of the Mediterranean and Anatolia, North of the Persian Gulf, South of the Caspian Sea. This was Persia and is now modern day Iran, Iraq, and part of Turkey.

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Iran: a dynasty uniting Persia from 1501 to 1736.

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persia:) it originated the samey was the ottomans did. from the chaos that ensued after the mongols invaded the Rus (Iran, anitolia) and failed to keep proper order.

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