Why didn't the Ottomans conquer Persia?

The Ottoman Empire secured its place as one of the most powerful and large empires throughout its 600 years of history. It was the empire that seized Constantinople and collapsed the Byzantine Empire, and its cultural expansion still remains throughout some of its former vassal states today. But there will always be curious as to why any empire stopped where it did, and what prevented further growth before the ultimate collapse. In the case of the Ottomans, one question that comes to mind is why didn’t the Ottomans conquer Persia?...

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♦Sources :
McCaffrey, Michael J. Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV.
Mikaberidze, Alexander. Historical Dictionary of Georgia.
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Parizi, Mohammad-Ebrahim Bastani. Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. X.
Sicker, Martin. The Islamic World in Decline: From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.

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