Ottomans · 1396
Battle of Nicopolis
The largest crusade of its time was destroyed on the Danube.
Key facts
- When
- 1396
- Where
- Nikopol, Bulgaria
- Sides
- Ottomans vs a European crusade
- Commanders
- Bayezid I vs Sigismund of Hungary
- Result
- Ottoman victory
- Type
- Ottomans
- Chapter
- 5. The Ottomans
The wider picture: Three gunpowder empires
Mehmed II took Constantinople in 1453. Selim I conquered Egypt in 1517 and the caliphate passed to the Ottomans. Suleiman won at Mohacs in 1526, and a second siege of Vienna failed in 1683. Further east, Safavid Iran and the Mughals of India ruled at the same time.
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