The Ottoman Empire and the Battle of Nicopolis

The ottomans had been the bully boys of the late fourteenth century. But a powerful movement was conquering lands to their east. The timurids were led by a man call timur, whose blood line came from the same ancestry as the rulers of the mongo empire. He took control of all the lands of ancient persia and pushed the mighty deli sultant of india deep into the sub continent. After fleeing the battlefield, he would die in timuri captivity having only reached his forties. Some of the ottoman allies in anatoli had defected to the timuri side,. And now the ottomos were under serious threats.