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en-wikipedia-org-9644		Safavid Iran - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	27258	2351	68	According to Encyclopædia Iranica, his father and founder of the Empire, Ismail I, had begun this process on a bureaucratic level as he appointed a number of prominent Persians in powerful bureaucratic positions, and one can see this continued in Tahmāsp's lengthy and close relationship with the chief vizier, Qāżi Jahān of Qazvin, after 1535.[80] While Persians continued to fill their historical role as administrators and clerical elites under Tahmāsp, little had been done so far to minimize the military role of the Qezelbāš.[80] Therefore, in 1540, Shah Tahmāsp started the first of a series of invasions of the Caucasus region, both meant as a training and drilling for his soldiers, as well as mainly bringing back massive numbers of Christian Circassian and Georgian slaves, who would form the basis of a military slave system,[81] alike to the janissaries of the neighbouring Ottoman Empire,[82] as well as at the same time forming a new layer in Iranian society composed of ethnic Caucasians.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9644.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9644.txt