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Tamerlane and the Ottoman Interregnum: The Years Without a Sultan
In 1402, Tamerlane shattered the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Ankara, capturing Sultan Bayezid I. The sultan's death in captivity plunged the Ottomans into a twelve-year civil war known as the Ottoman Interregnum, or Fetret Devri. While Tamerlane restored the defeated Anatolian beyliks and marched home to Samarkand, Bayezid's four sons—Süleyman, İsa, Musa, and Mehmed—fought a brutal fratricidal war for the throne. This episode traces the interregnum's bloody course: Süleyman's European alliance, Musa's Balkan campaigns, and Mehmed's eventual victory that…
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