Počiatky diplomatických kontaktov safíjovskej Perzie s Habsburgovcami a Uhorskom na začiatku 16. storočia
The Beginnings of the Diplomatic Contacts of Safavid Persia with the Habsburgs and the Kingdom of Hungary in the Early 16th Century

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the issue of the first diplomatic contacts of Safavid Persia, Jagiellonian Kingdom of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy in the early 16th century. The introduction will present primary source materials edited in the collections as well as the respective scholarship. Based on these materials, I will reconstruct the beginnings of the aforementioned diplomatic relations. At first, key emphasis will be placed on the international circumstances of the relations’ constitution at the beginning of the 16th century. The conceptual framework of this historical issue will examine the question of the creation of an anti-Ottoman alliance which should have included Safavid Persia. Because of this, the Safavid dynasty (1501 – 1736) had established contacts with several European states (such as the Papal Curia, Venice and Portugal) from the beginning of their reign. It was they who conveyed the information about Persia to other political leaders of the then Europe, including the Hungarian king and the Holy Roman emperor. Furthermore, I will pursue an analysis of the first surviving correspondence between the first Safavid Shah Ismāʿīl (1501 – 1524), the Hungarian King Louis II. Jagiellonian (1516 – 1526) and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1519 – 1556). Afterwards, I will indicate the further development of these nascent diplomatic contacts. The study intends to contribute to the knowledge on the international relations and diplomacy between the “West” and the “East” at the beginning of the 16th century, to which the Kingdom of Hungary, the Habsburg Monarchy and Safavid Persia belonged.

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