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Bayezid I (Ottoman Turkish: بايزيد اول; Turkish: I. Bayezid), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (Ottoman Turkish: یلدیرم بايزيد; Turkish: Yıldırım Bayezid; c. 1360 – 8 March 1403), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402.
Bayezid I (born c. 1360—died March 1403, Akşehir, Ottoman Empire) was an Ottoman sultan in 1389–1402 who founded the first centralized Ottoman state based on traditional Turkish and Muslim institutions and who stressed the need to extend Ottoman dominion in Anatolia.
Bayezid I, also known as Yildirim (The Thunderbolt), was a sultan of the Ottoman Empire who reigned from June 1389 to July 1402. He is recognized in history as the founder of the first centralised Ottoman state in accordance with the traditional Turkish and Muslim institutions.
The Battle of Ankara or Angora ( Ottoman Turkish: آنقره محاربهسی, romanized : Anḳara Muḥârebesi) was fought on 20 July 1402 at the Çubuk plain near Ankara, between the forces of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I and the emir of the Timurid Empire, Timur. The battle was a major victory for Timur, and it led to the Ottoman Interregnum. [6] Background.
2 days ago · Overview. Bayezid I. (1347—1403) Quick Reference. (1347–1403) Ottoman sultan (1389–1402). He succeeded his father Murad I and absorbed rival Turkish principalities in western Asia Minor, took Trnovo in Bulgaria (1393), and Thessaloniki in Greece (1394), blockaded Constantinople (1394–1401), and defeated a Christian army at Nicopolis in 1396.
Oct 15, 2021 · Bayezid means "Father of Yazid," which is the nickname of Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan, also known as Muawiya I, one of the companions (sahaba) of the Prophet Muhammad. Bayezid joined the battle against the Karamanid troops with his father in 1387.
Bayezid I, also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of Sultan-i Rûm, Rûm being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire. In 1394, Bayezid unsuccessfully besieged Constantinople.
Bayezid I, undated engraving. Bayezid I was at the height of his power, besieging the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, when he was drawn away from fighting the Christians by the threat of Timur’s army advancing from eastern Anatolia.
Summary. Ottoman troops roaming the outskirts of Constantinople had seized almost all the lands surrounding the city by the year 1391, that is, a few years before Bayezid I embarked upon the actual siege operations.
Bayezid I (often given the epithet Yıldırım, "the Thunderbolt") succeeded to the sultanship upon the assassination of his father Murad during the battle of Kosovo.
