WebThe Battle of Ankara or Angora 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. Background. Timur, a Turco-Mongol from Transoxiana (now ...

WebYear Battle Loc. Description 1302: Battle of the Golden Spurs: 11 July – In Flanders, Flemish forces led by William of Jülich and Pieter de Coninck defeat French knights.: Battle of Bapheus: 27 July – The founder of the Ottoman dynasty Osman I defeats a Byzantine force.: Siege of Ruad: 26 September – Mamluk forces defeat the Knights Templar, and …

WebEvents Pre-1600. 477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.; 387 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.; 362 – Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman …

WebDetermined to preempt this, Timur caught up with Tokhtamysh and forced him to give battle at the Kondurcha river, on 18 June 1391. The hard-fought battle ended in the rout of Tokhtamysh's forces and his flight from the battlefield; many of his soldiers, trapped between the enemy and the Volga, were captured or slaughtered.

WebTimurid conquests and invasions started in the seventh decade of the 14th century with Timur's control over Chagatai Khanate and ended at the start of the 15th century with the death of Timur. Due to the sheer scale of Timur's wars, and the fact that he was generally undefeated in battle, he has been regarded as one of the most successful military …

WebThe composite Turko-Persian, Turco-Persian or Turco-Iranian tradition (Persian: فرهنگ ایرانی-ترکی) was a distinctive culture that arose in the 9th and 10th centuries in Khorasan and Transoxiana (present-day Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, minor parts of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan).. In subsequent centuries, the Turco-Persian culture …

WebTimur (Chagatay: تيمور Temür, lit. 'Iron'; 9 April 1336 – 17–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī (Chagatay: تيمور کورگن Temür Küregen), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty.An undefeated commander, he is widely …

WebThe Timurid Empire (Chagatay: تیموریلر, Persian: تیموریان), self-designated as Gurkani (Chagatai: کورگن, Küregen; Persian: گورکانیان, Gūrkāniyān), was a Persianate Turco-Mongol empire that dominated Greater Iran in the early 15th century, comprising modern-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, as well as most of …

WebThe battle ended indecisively. In 1391, Timur gathered an army 200,000 strong and defeated Tokhtamysh at the Battle of the Kondurcha River. Timur's allies Temür Qutlugh and Edigu took the eastern half of the Golden Horde. Tokhtamysh returned in 1394, ravaging the region of Shirvan.

WebEarly life. He was a grandson of the great conqueror and king, Timur (Tamerlane) (1336–1405), and the oldest son of Shah Rukh, both of whom came from the Turkicized Barlas tribe of Transoxiana (now Uzbekistan).His mother was a noblewoman named Gawhar Shad, daughter of a member of the representative Turkic tribal aristocracy, …