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BATTLE OF ANKARA
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORIC BATTLE

battle of Ankara -
the battle was fought on 20 July 1402
at the Çubuk plain near Ankara
Between the forces of ottoman sultan
Bayezid 1 and emir of timurid empire
timur lane

The commanders of timurid empire -
In battle

Timur
shah Rukh
Khalil sultan
Miran shah
Sultan husayn

The commanders of ottoman empire in battle

Bayezid 1
suleyman celebi
Mehmed celebi
musa celebi

Timur, a Turco-Mongol from Transoxiana (now Uzbekistan), had built an empire in Central Asia over the years, and became the most powerful ruler in Central Asia since Genghis Khan.[6] He sought to rebuild the once great Mongol Empire.[7] In the 1380s and 1390s, he invaded and conquered parts of Persia (including Armenia, Azerbaijan and Upper Mesopotamia), ravaged southern Russia and Ukraine (1395–96), and invaded India (1398).[8] Although there had been tensions between the Ottomans and...