The English adventurer Robert Shirley, concluding a …
Years: 1615 - 1615
The English adventurer Robert Shirley, concluding a long diplomatic mission to Europe on behalf of the Shah, returns to Persia by sea, through the Cape of Good Hope to land in India, at the mouth of the Indus, escaping from an attempt to his life by the Portuguese.
He finally arrives at Isfahan with his Circassian wife Teresia in 1615.
All his traveling companions have however died on the way in a poisoning conspiracy.
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People
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- Milan, Archdiocese of
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Ottoman Empire
- Persia, Safavid Kingdom of
- Russia, Tsardom of
- Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Commonwealth of the Two Nations)
- Tuscany, Grand Duchy of
- Levant Company, or Turkey Company (in full: Company of Merchants of England trading to the Seas of the Levant)
- Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire
- France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
- Mughal Empire (Agra)
- East India Company, British (The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies)
- England, (Stuart) Kingdom of
