The Ottoman World

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32 - The Ottoman World

from PART IV - THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN STATES

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008

Elizabeth Zachariadou

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Christopher Allmand

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Christopher Allmand: Affiliation:
University of Liverpool

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the aftermarth of the battle of ankara

During the first half of the fifteenth century Europe, although shaken by the Great Schism and deeply divided by wars, had one obvious enemy: the Ottoman Turk, who professed a different religion and, for this reason, was not just an enemy but the enemy of Christ and of the Cross. This fact did not prevent a Christian state from pursuing commercial relations with the Turks, or even from appealing to them for help against another Christian state. However, in religious propaganda and political theory it was the Turk who was labelled as the eternal foe.

The process of Ottoman expansion was halted by the Anatolian campaign of the Mongol khan, Timur. The Christians had watched his movements with great interest at least since 1394, when his troops began to press the eastern frontier of the Ottoman lands. The whole Christian world felt deep relief when the Mongol army dissolved the Ottoman state by crushing Sultan Bayazid I’s troops near Ankara and taking him prisoner (1402). Timur, with his army, stayed in Anatolia for approximately one year after his victory.

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Byzantines dynastic clashes civil wars Turkish emirs Ottoman expansion Ottoman economy social strife

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Print publication year: 1998

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