During his brief majority reign, Murad IV (1623–1640) reasserted central authority and recaptured Iraq (1639) from the Safavids. The resulting Treaty of Zuhab of that same year decisively divided the Caucasus and adjacent regions between the two neighbouring empires as it had already been defined in the 1555 Peace of Amasya.
During his brief majority reign, Murad IV (1623–1640) reasserted central authority and recaptured Iraq (1.639) from the Safavids. The resulting Treaty. of Zu!hab of that same year de,cisively divided the Caucasus and adjacent ,regions between the two neighbouring empires as it had already been defined in the 1555 Peace of Amasya.