Ismail I
1487–1524
founder and first shah of Safavid Iran
monarch · writer · poet
Born in Ardabil
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Ismail I:
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
- Michelangelo (1475–1564)
- Martin Luther (1483–1546)
- Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
- Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521)
- Raphael (1483–1520)