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Bayezid I and Mehmed I: Nicopolis, Ankara and the Civil War

1389 – 1392: Bayezid in Anatolia

1389 – 1392Bayezid becomes sultan, 1389–1390 April – December 1390The beyliks and Philadelphia, 1390 1391 – 1392Kastamonu and Kırkdilim, 1391–1392

1393 – 1395: Tarnovo to Rovine

Spring – 17 July 1393Tarnovo, 1393 Winter 1393 – 1394Thessaly and Serres, 1393–1394 1394The blockade of Constantinople, 1394 March – May 1395Rovine, 1395 June – December 1395Nikopol and the Vardar, 1395

1396: Nicopolis

August 1395 – August 1396The crusade sets out, 1396 August – September 1396Vidin and Rahova, 1396

Battle of Nicopolis, 1396

24–25 September 1396The armies at Nicopolis 25 September 1396The French charge 25 September 1396The sipahis 25 September 1396The Serbs and the rout

26 September 1396 – June 1397After Nicopolis, 1396–1397

1397 – 1400: From the Danube to the Euphrates

Autumn 1397Akçay and Karaman, 1397 Spring 1398 – 1399Sivas and Malatya, 1398–1399 1395 – 1400Argos and the Morea, 1395–1400 1399 – 1402Boucicaut and Manuel’s journey, 1399–1402 1400Bayezid’s empire, 1400

1400 – 1403: Timur

September 1399 – August 1400Timur takes Sivas, 1400 Autumn 1400 – 1401Aleppo, Damascus and Baghdad, 1400–1401 March – July 1402The march to Ankara, 1402

Battle of Ankara, 1402

July 1402The armies at Ankara 20 July 1402, or 28 JulyThe battle lines 20 July 1402, or 28 JulyThe Anatolian troops change sides 20 July 1402, or 28 JulyBayezid on the hill

August – December 1402Bursa and Smyrna, 1402 Autumn 1402 – 1403Timur’s settlement, 1403

1402 – 1413: The sons of Bayezid

August – November 1402Tripolje, 1402 1403The Treaty of Gallipoli, 1403 Spring – summer 1403İsa and Mehmed, 1403 1404 – 1410Süleyman in Anatolia, 1404–1410 1409 – February 1411Musa in Rumelia, 1409–1411 February – December 1411Musa’s siege of Constantinople, 1411 Autumn 1411 – 1412İnceğiz and Serbia, 1411–1412 Spring – July 1413Çamurlu, 1413

1413 – 1421: Mehmed I

July 1413 – 1415Mehmed restores the sultanate, 1413–1415 1414 – August 1415Doboj and Bosnia, 1414–1415 June 1414 – November 1419Gallipoli, 1416 1416Mustafa Çelebi, 1416 1416 – 1420Sheikh Bedreddin, 1416 1417 – 1420Wallachia and Valona, 1417–1420 1417 – August 1420Candar and Samsun, 1417–1420 1409 – 1420Bursa and Edirne under Mehmed I 26 May – summer 1421Mehmed’s death, 1421

1389 – 1421

Bayezid I and Mehmed I: Nicopolis, Ankara and the Civil War

Bayezid I's conquests from the Danube to the Euphrates, the crusade he beat at Nicopolis in 1396 and his defeat by Timur at Ankara in 1402, the civil war of his sons, and Mehmed I's reunion of the Ottoman lands until his death in 1421.