Late Middle Ages · Middle East · Politics
1389
Bayezid I succeeds murdered Murad
June 1389
Hours after his father's assassination on the battlefield of Kosovo, the new Ottoman sultan ordered the strangulation of his own brother Yakub to forestall succession war, establishing a grim precedent of fratricide that would haunt the dynasty. Bayezid would campaign relentlessly across Bulgaria, Greece, and Anatolia, earning the nickname Yildirim, the Thunderbolt, until Timur shattered him at Ankara.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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