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The '''Safavid'''s ({{PerB|صفویان}};{{lang-az|صفوی‌لر}}; {{lang-ka|სეფიანთა დინასტია}}) were one of the [[Iranian people| Iranian]] ruling dynasties of [[Persia]].

The Safavids were an [[Iranian people|Iranian]]<ref>Helen Chapin Metz. Iran , a Country study. 1989. Original from the University of Michigan. pg 313. Emory C. Bogle. Islam: Origin and Belief. University of Texas Press. 1989. pg 145. Stanford Jay Shaw. History of the Ottomon Empire. Cambridge University Press. 1977. pg 77 </ref> [[Shia]] dynasty of mixed ancestry([[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]]<ref name="fryeiranica">[http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v13f3/v13f3004a.html Encyclopaedia Iranica. R. N. Frye. Peoples of Iran.]</ref>,[[Circassian]]/[[Georgian]]<ref>RUDI MATTHEE, "GEORGIANS IN THE SAFAVID ADMINISTRATION" in Encyclopedia Iranica [http://www.iranica.com/newsite/index.isc?Article=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v10f5/v10f504a.html]</ref>, Greek<ref>Anthony Bryer. "Greeks and Türkmens: The Pontic Exception", ''Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 29.'', (1975), Appendix II - Genealogy of the Muslim Marriages of the Princesses of Trebizond</ref>,[[Kurdistan|Kurdish]]<ref name="R.M.">[http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v8f1/v8f1010.html R.M. Savory. Ebn Bazzaz. Encyclopedia Iranica]</ref>) which ruled [[Iran]] from 1501/1502 to 1722. Safavids established the greatest Iranian empire<ref>Andrew J. Newman, Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire, I. B. Tauris (March 30, 2006)</ref> since the [[Islamic conquest of Persia]] and established the [[Twelvers|Ithnāˤashari school]] of [[Imamah (Shi'a twelver doctrine)|Shi'a Islam]]<ref name="savoryeiref"> R.M. Savory, ''Safavids'', [[Encyclopedia of Islam]], 2nd edition</ref> as the official [[religion]] of their empire, marking one of the most important turning points in the [[history of Islam]].