Battle of Gulnabad
| Hotaki-Safavid War | |||||||
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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 | Hotak Dynasty | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Mohammad Qoli Khan Ali Mardan Khan Rustam Khan † Philippe Colombe † Seyyed Abdollah |
Mahmud Hotak Ashraf Hotak Amanullah Khan Nesrollah | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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42,000–50,000+
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10,000–11,000
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 5,000–15,000 | Unknown | ||||||
The Battle of Gulnabad (Pashto: د ګلون اباد جګړه, romanized: Dh Gulonābād Jaghrha; Persian: نبرد گلونآباد, romanized: Nabard-e Golūnābād) was fought between the military forces from the Hotak 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.