Ottoman Interregnum

Ottoman Interregnum

Late 16th-century depiction of Musa and Süleyman, facing each other
Date20 July 1402 (1402-07-20) – 5 July 1413 (1413-07-05)
(10 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Result

Victory of Mehmed Çelebi

  • Reunification of the Ottoman state
Belligerents
Mehmed's forces
Serbian Despotate
İsa's forces Süleyman's forces Musa's forces
Wallachia
Commanders and leaders
Mehmed Çelebi
Stefan Lazarević
Imamzade Halil Pasha
İsa Çelebi Executed
Junayd of Aydın[a][1][2]

Süleyman Çelebi 
Çandarlızade Ali Pasha [b]
Vuk Lazarević Executed
Junayd of Aydın[c][3][4]


Orhan Çelebi[d]
Musa Çelebi Executed
Mircea the Elder[6]
Sheikh Bedreddin[7]

The Ottoman Interregnum, or the Ottoman Civil War[8] (Turkish: Fetret devri,[9] lit.'Interregnum period'), was a civil war in the Ottoman Empire between the sons of Sultan Bayezid I following their father's defeat at the hands of Timur in the Battle of Ankara on 20 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.[10] This resulted in civil war. The Interregnum would last a little under 11 years, culminating in the Battle of Çamurlu on 5 July 1413, when Mehmed Çelebi emerged as victor, crowned himself Sultan Mehmed I, and restored the empire.


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  1. ^ Mélikoff 1965, pp. 599–600.
  2. ^ Kastritsis 2007, pp. 50, 80, 109.
  3. ^ Zachariadou 1983, p. 86.
  4. ^ Kastritsis 2007, p. 119.
  5. ^ Philippides 2007, p. 73.
  6. ^ Kastritsis 2007, p. 140.
  7. ^ "BEDREDDİN SİMÂVÎ Simavna Kadısı Oğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Mahmud (ö. 823/1420) Osmanlı fakih ve mutasavvıfı, önemli bir isyan ve ihtilâl hareketinin başlatıcısı.". TDV Encyclopedia of Islam (44+2 vols.) (in Turkish). Istanbul: Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, Centre for Islamic Studies. 1988–2016.
  8. ^ Kastritsis 2007, p. xi.
  9. ^ "FETRET DEVRİ". TDV Encyclopedia of Islam (44+2 vols.) (in Turkish). Istanbul: Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, Centre for Islamic Studies. 1988–2016.
  10. ^ Fine 1994, p. 499.

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