"Kizilbash | History, Calvary, & Meaning". Encyclopedia Britannica (به انگلیسی). p. Kizilbash, also spelled Qizilbash, Turkish Kızılbaş (“Red Head”), any member of the seven Turkmen tribes who supported the Safavid dynasty (1501–1736) in Iran. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
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«ESMĀʿĪL I ṢAFAWĪ – Encyclopaedia Iranica». iranicaonline.org. ص. The establishment of the Safavid state and the consolidation of Safavid power in Persia٫ In ۹۰۶/۱۵۰۰ Esmāʿīl mobilized at Arzenjān a force of ۷,۰۰۰ Turkman tribesmen from the qezelbāš tribes of Ostājlū, Rūmlū, Takkalū, Ḏu’l-Qadar, Afšār, Qājār, and Varsāq. دریافتشده در ۲۰۲۱-۰۲-۱۹.
«Encyclopaedia Iranica» (به انگلیسی). ص. Each clan migrated to a different part of Persia, with their leaders appointed as governor of the area once the Safavids conquered it٫ Thus the Ostājlu were located in Azerbaijan and in part in ʿErāq-e ʿAjam and Kermān; the Qarāmānlu hailed from Širvān; the Šāmlu resided in Khorasan; the Tekellu held Isfahan, Hamadan, and parts of ʿErāq-e ʿAjam; Fārs was in the hands of the Ḏu’l-Qadr, the Afšār dominated in Kuhgiluya and Khuzestan (Ḵuzestān), and Baghdad rested under the Mawṣellu, a smaller tribe and offshoot of the Āq Qoyunlu٫.
