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Losses: Ottoman, considerable of 15,000; Crusader, most dead or captured of 10,000. Tony Bunting. Bayezid I 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.
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Major POW camps across the United States as of June 1944. Entrance to Camp Swift in Texas, August 1944. Members of the German military were interned as prisoners of war in the United States during World War I and World War II. In all, 425,000 German prisoners lived in 700 camps throughout the United States during World War II.
The most significant of these was the trial of the Auschwitz criminals, launched in 1963 in Frankfurt am Main. Twenty-one days after Eichmann’s execution, unrest in Argentina over the incident flared. In June 1962, nationalist extremists abducted a 19-year-old Jewish girl, tortured her, and scarred her with swastikas.
Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages. The ”peaceful” Pilgrims massacred the Pequots and destroyed their fort near Stonington ...
Jul 28, 2014 · Around the same time, 2,000 captured sailors and 1,600 immigrants were deported to the countries of their citizenship. The last prisoner wasn't released until April 1920, a full year and a half ...
After Sultan Bayezid I’s wife had been captured and held hostage by the Mongol conqueror Timur in the 1400s, it became the practice for sultans not to marry but to simply take concubines, women who did not have the same legal status as an official wife and whose chief purpose was to bear children for the sultan.
Search for: 'Bayezid I' in Oxford 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.
