Battle of Gulnabad | |||||||
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Part of Hotaki-Safavid War | |||||||
A diagram of the battle as well as casualties | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Safavid Empire | Hotaki dynasty | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Mohammad Qoli Khan Ali Mardan Khan Rustam Khan † Philippe Colombe † Seyyed Abdollah[1] |
Mahmud Hotaki Amanullah Khan Nesrollah[1] Ashraf Hotaki | ||||||
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
5,000–15,000[4][7] | Unknown |
The Battle of Gulnabad (Pashto: ده ګلونآبد جنګ, romanized: Dh Gulonābād Džng; Persian: نبرد گلونآباد, romanized: Nabard-e Golūnābād) was fought between the military forces from Hotaki Dynasty and the army of the Safavid Empire on Sunday, March 8, 1722. It further cemented the eventual fall of the Safavid dynasty, which had been declining for decades.
After the battle was won, the Hotaks began slowly but surely to march on deeper into Persia, and eventually towards Isfahan, the Safavid Persian capital. Numbers and casualty figures of the Gulnabad battle are believed to be between 5,000 and 15,000 dead Safavid soldiers.