Tamerlane's Battle of Ankara: The Ottoman Empire Crushed

In 1402, outside Ankara, the two greatest military commanders of the age met: Tamerlane and the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I. This episode walks through the battle that shattered the Ottoman Empire, left Bayezid a captive, and plunged Anatolia into a decade-long civil war. We follow the armies as they march across the steppe, the river crossing at Çubuk, the defection of Bayezid's Tatar contingents, and the aftermath that delayed the fall of Constantinople by half a century. Along the way we meet the Serbian knights who fought for the sultan, the Byzantine emperor who gambled on Timur, and the shocking story of Bayezid's captivity. This is the battle that redrew the map of the Middle East and saved Christian Europe—for a time. #Tamerlane #Timur #BayezidI #BattleOfAnkara #OttomanEmpire #TimuridEmpire #1402 #SerbianKnights #StefanLazarevic #ByzantineEmpire #ManuelII #Çubuk #Anatolia #Yildirim #Interregnum #CentralAsia #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo