Open AccessAn Evaluation of Bayezid's Political and Strategic Mistakes in the Rout of Ankara in 1402
Author(s) -
Süleyman Demi̇rci̇
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chronos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1608-7526
DOI - 10.31377/chr.v19i0.460
Subject(s) - battle , ancient history , empire , politics , persian , turkish , power (physics) , history , geography , political science , law , theology , philosophy , physics , linguistics , quantum mechanics
One of the most important events in the Middle Ages was emergence of Timur's Empire between 1370 and 1405, culminating in the battle of Ankara between Timur and Bayezid in 1402. Tamerlane is more correctly called by his Turkish name, Temur; the Westem version of his name comes from the Persian Temuri lang, or "Temur the lame". He was probably born in 1336 near Samarkand (Manz 1990:1) in Transoxiana, which was then part of the Changhatayid Khanate in which Timur grew up. In the 1360s, there was a struggle in the former territory of Chingish Khans's second son, Chaghatayid, whose land was located close to the Isik Kul and Ili river, and included the Muslim territory of Central Asia. By this time, the various groups within the territory had made themselves independent under their own chiefs; this situation continued until Timur's assumption of power in 1370 (Hookham 1962:103).