Today's episode had to be thrown together in a hurry but it's appropriate in that July 20 is the anniversary of the Battle of Ankara in 1402, in which Timur crushed the young Ottoman Empire under Sultan Bayazid I (see image) and sent it into a decade long tailspin. Here we'll talk about the battle and then cover that tailspin, which only ended with the …
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