Bayezid I the Thunderbolt
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c. 1360 – 1403 · 43 years · Bursa · Middle East
Reign: 1389 – 1402 (Ottoman Empire)
He crushed the crusaders at Nicopolis in 1396 and besieged Constantinople for years, but in 1402 was defeated by Timur at Ankara and died in captivity, plunging the state into a decade of civil war.
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