Ottoman Interregnum
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Late 16th-century depiction of Musa and Süleyman, facing each other | |||||||||
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Mehmed's forces Serbian Despotate Dulkadirids | İsa's forces | Süleyman's forces |
Musa's forces Wallachia | ||||||
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Mehmed Çelebi Stefan Lazarević Imamzade Halil Pasha |
İsa Çelebi Junayd of Aydın |
Süleyman Çelebi † Orhan Çelebi |
Musa Çelebi Mircea the Elder Sheikh Bedreddin | ||||||
| History of the Ottoman Empire |
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| Timeline (Territorial evolution) |
| Historiography (Ghaza, Decline) |
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The Ottoman Interregnum, or Ottoman Civil War, (Turkish: Fetret devri, lit. 'Interregnum period') was a civil war in the Ottoman realm between the sons of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I following their father's defeat and capture by Timur in the Battle of Ankara on 28 July 1402. Although Timur confirmed Mehmed Çelebi as sultan, Mehmed's brothers (İsa Çelebi, Musa Çelebi, Süleyman Çelebi, and later Mustafa Çelebi) refused to recognize his authority, each claiming the throne for himself, which resulted in civil war. The Interregnum would last a little under 11 years and culminate in the Battle of Çamurlu on 5 July 1413, when Mehmed Çelebi emerged as victor, crowned himself Sultan Mehmed I, and restored the empire.