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Safavid IranIn the year 1501, a seventeen-year-old boy named Ismail I marched into the city of Tabriz and declared himself the Shahanshah, or King of Kings, of Iran.
Safavid dynastyIn the year 1501, a seventeen-year-old boy crowned himself Shah of Iran, claiming divine authority to unite a fractured land under a new religious banner.