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Tamerlane's Ottoman Prisoners: The Anatolian Interregnum
Fresh from his victory over Bayezid the Thunderbolt at Ankara, Tamerlane faced a decision: what to do with the captive Ottoman sultan and his sons. This episode follows the aftermath of the 1402 battle, tracing how Tamerlane deliberately fractured the Ottoman realm by releasing Bayezid's heirs — Süleyman, Mehmed, İsa, and Musa — and setting them against each other. We explore the resulting eleven-year civil war known as the Ottoman Interregnum, the shifting alliances with Tamerlane's viceroys, and the eventual rise of Mehmed I as reunifier. Along the way, we meet figures like the…
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