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Bayezid was the son of Murad I [5] and his Greek wife, Gülçiçek Hatun. [6] His first major role was as governor of Kütahya, a city that he earned by marrying the daughter of a Germiyanid ruler. [7] He was an impetuous soldier, earning the nickname "Thunderbolt" in a battle against the Karamanids . Bayezid ascended to the throne following ...
- 16 June 1389 – 20 July 1402
- Gülçiçek Hatun
Feb 26, 2024 · 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. In the early years of Bayezid’s reign, Ottoman forces conducted ...
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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. He defeated the Crusaders at the Battle of Nicopolis in what is now Bulgaria in 1396. He was later defeated and captured by Timur at the ...
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. In the initial years of his tenure, the Ottomans brought the vast ...
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Battle of Ankara, Ankara also spelled Angora, (July 20, 1402), military confrontation in which forces of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, "the Thunderbolt," victor at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, were defeated by those of the Central Asian ruler Timur (Tamerlane) and which resulted in humiliating defeat for Bayezid and the collapse of his ...
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Bayezid I. (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. His thrust into eastern Asia Minor ...
Sultan Bayezid I was born in 1360, the year his father ascended the throne. Bayezid means "Father of Yazid," which is the nickname of Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan, also known as Muawiya I, one of the ...
