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Ankara, Battle of

Battle in 1402 in which Timur the Lame defeated and captured the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I. This marked the western limit of Timur's expansion and led to a temporary crisis in the Ottoman regime: it was ten years before Mehmed I was able to reunite the empire.


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