The
Treaty of Zuhab (, also called
Treaty of Qasr-e Shirin (
Treaty of Kasr-i Sirin; )) was an accord signed between
Safavid Empire and the
Ottoman Empire on May 17, 1639. The accord ended the
Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–1639) and was the last conflict in almost 150 years of intermittent wars between the two states over territorial disputes. It can roughly be seen as a confirmation of the previous
Peace of Amasya from 1555. The treaty confirmed the dividing of territories in
West Asia priorly held by the Safavids, such as the permanent parting of the
Caucasus between the two powers, in which
East Armenia, eastern
Georgia,
Dagestan, and
Azerbaijan stayed Iranian, while western Georgia and most of
Western Armenia came fully under Ottoman rule. It also included all of
Mesopotamia (including
Baghdad) being irreversibly ceded to the Ottomans. Nevertheless, border disputes between Persia and the Ottoman Empire did not end. Between 1555 and 1918, Persia and the Ottomans signed no less than 18 treaties that would re-address their disputed borders. The exact demarcation according to this treaty would not begin until the 19th century, essentially laying out the rough outline for the frontier between modern day
Iran and the states of
Turkey and
Iraq (the former Ottoman-Persian border until 1918, when the Ottoman Empire lost its territories in the Middle East following their defeat in
World War I.)