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Tamerlane's Golden Heart: The Siege of Smyrna and the Hospitallers
In December 1402, fresh from crushing the Ottoman sultan Bayezid at Ankara, Tamerlane turned his gaze westward to the Aegean coast. His target: the fortified port city of Smyrna, held by the Knights Hospitaller. This episode reconstructs the two-week siege through the accounts of the Spanish envoy Ruy González de Clavijo and the Arab historian Ibn Arabshah. Lucas and Luna explore Tamerlane's use of massive catapults, his construction of a stone causeway to the harbor, and the brutal aftermath that sent shockwaves through Christendom. Why did Tamerlane target a Christian fortress so far…
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