@ysf_tarih: BATTLE OF ANKARA 1402 The Battle of Ankara was a monumental clash fought on July 20, 1402, on the Çubuk plain near Ankara, pitting two of the medieval world’s greatest military titans against each other: Sultan Bayezid I (The Thunderbolt) of the Ottoman Empire and the Central Asian conqueror Timur (Tamerlane). The conflict arose from intense geopolitical rivalry, as both rulers sought absolute dominance over Anatolia and the wider Islamic world, further fueled by displaced Anatolian Turkish rulers who fled to Timur for protection against Bayezid’s aggressive expansion. Despite Bayezid’s formidable reputation, Timur held the tactical advantage by outmaneuvering the Ottomans, strategically cutting off their water supply and deploying formidable war elephants that sowed chaos among the Ottoman ranks. The turning point of the battle came when thousands of Anatolian soldiers and Tatars within Bayezid’s army defected to Timur’s side, seeing their former lords fighting alongside the Central Asian conqueror. Despite the fierce and loyal resistance of the Janissaries and Bayezid’s Serbian vassals, the Ottoman lines collapsed under the overwhelming pressure. The aftermath of the battle was catastrophic for the Ottoman Empire. Bayezid I was captured alive—marking the first and only time in history an Ottoman sultan was taken prisoner by an enemy—and he died in captivity less than a year later. Timur’s decisive victory completely fractured the Ottoman realm, plunging it into an eleven-year period of civil war and political chaos known as the Ottoman Interregnum (Fetret Devri), which temporarily halted Ottoman expansion into Europe and reshaped the geopolitics of the region for decades to come. . . . . . . #war #fyp #bpwkpp #turk #ottoman

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