France, Germany and other countries of the coalition, the Crusaders captured nearly ten thousand, in addition to the use of money redemption 300 noble knights, remaining almost all killed. From then on, Europeans could only watch Osman's Empire ...
(July 20, 1402;seeBattle of Ankara), and captured Smyrna from the Knights of Rhodes. Having received offers of submission from the sultan of Egypt and fromJohn VII(then coemperor of theByzantine EmpirewithManuel II Palaeologus), Timur returned to Samarkand (1404) and prepared for an ...
Following Abu Saeed Ilkhan's death (from Mongol Empire), for half a century, Iranian lands were reigned by local rules. Finally, lately in the 8th century, Amir Timur thrived from Transoxiana in northeastern Iran, and gradually made obedient Iran and surrounding countries. However, in the ...