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Facts

Also Known As Battle of Angora
Date July 20, 1402
Location Ankara • Turkey
Participants Ottoman Empire • Turkic peoples

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Bayezid I
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Key People

Timur
Timur
Turkic conqueror
Bayezid I
Bayezid I
Ottoman sultan

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