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Bayezid represents both a continuation
of the building of state structures in the empire, as well as the most
dramatic downturn so far in its history.For the empire as a total he built for
the first time a centralized state. But his main achievements came in Asia.
For while he performed (he was actually forced to by the actions of his
opponents) many important military campaigns in Europe, he put most of his
emphasis on widening Ottoman suzerainty over Turkman rulers in Anatolia.
Various emirates were annexed into the empire.But this consolidation policy also
brought him into direct conflict with Timur Lenk. And this resulted in a
total defeat of Beyazid, with short time disintegration of the empire as a
result.
BIOGRAPHY
Around 1360: Born as son of of sultan Murad
1.
1391: A 8 year long blockade against Constantinople is started.
1393 July: Tirnova in today's Bulgaria is blockaded by
Bayezid's forces.
1394 April: Salonika in today's Greece is conquered.
1396 September 25: Bayezid is faced with a Hungarian-Venetian
crusade, which he at Nicopolis inflicted a crushing defeat.
1402 July: In the battle of Ankara against Timur Lenk,
Bayezid's forces are defeated. Bayezid is put in jail.
1403: Dies in Aksehir while in capitivity. He was eventually
succeeded by his son Mehmed
1, but only after this had been forced to win the lands that had been
given to his 2 brothers Süleyman and Isa.