Person1360 – 1403
Bayezid I
Also called: Yıldırım Bayezid, Bajazet
Ottoman sultan (r. 1389–1402), called “the Thunderbolt”, who crushed a crusade at Nicopolis but was captured by Timur at the Battle of Ankara
Where they went
2 related events
- 1
In northwestern Anatolia, where the Sultanate of Rum had broken up under Mongol pressure, the Turkish chieftain Osman I built a state by fighting Byzantium — the beginning of an empire that lasted over six hundred years.
- 2
Timur defeated the Ottoman army near Ankara and captured Sultan Bayezid I, plunging the Ottoman state into civil war for a time.
People who appear alongside
- Osman I
Turkish chieftain who founded the Ottoman state (r. c. 1299–c. 1324), growing in strength by fighting the Byzantines in northwestern Anatolia
- Timur1336 – 1405
Conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire (r. 1370–1405), sweeping across western and Central Asia from his capital Samarkand; he died marching on Ming China
Themes this person appears in
- Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533
From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own