BAYEZID I  . (1347-1403), See also:

• OTTOMAN

Ottoman See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

sultan, surnamed YILDERIM or " See also:

• LIGHTNING

LIGHTNING," from the See also:

• GREAT

great rapidity of his movements, succeeded his See also:

• FATHER

father See also:

• MURAD, or AMURATH

Murad I. on the latter's assassination on the See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field of See also:

• KOSSOVO

Kossovo, 1389, and signalized his See also:

• ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession by ordering at once the See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution of his See also:

• BROTHER

brother Yakub, who had distinguished himself in the See also:

• BATTLE

battle . His arms were successful both in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe and See also:

• ASIA

Asia, and he was the first Ottoman See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign to be styled " sultan," which See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title he induced the titular Abbasid See also:

• CALIPH, CALIF

caliph to confer on him . After routing the See also:

• CHIVALRY (O. Fr. chevalerie, from Late Lat. caballerius)

chivalry of Christendom at the battle of See also:

• NIKOPOLI

Nikopoli in 1396, he pursued his victorious career in See also:

• GREECE

Greece, and See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople would doubtless have fallen before his attack, had not the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• MANUEL, EUGENE (1823–1901)
• MANUEL, JACQUES ANTOINE (1775-1827)
• MANUEL, LOUIS PIERRE (1751-1793)

Manuel See also:

• PALAEOLOGUS

Palaeologus bought him off by timely concessions which reduced him practically to the position of Bayezid's See also:

• VASSAL (Fr. vassal, vassaut, vassault, &c,)

vassal . But his conquests met with a sudden and overpowering check at the hands of Timur (Tamer-See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

lane) . Utterly defeated at See also:

• ANGORA, or ENGURI

Angora by the Mongol invader, Bayezid became his prisoner, and died in captivity some months later, in See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1403 . Bayezid first married Devlet Shah Khatun, daughter of the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince of Kermian, who brought him in See also:

• DOWRY (in Anglo-Fr. dowarie, O. Fr. douaire, Med. Lat. dotaria, from Lat. dos; from root of dare, to give; in Fr. dot)

dowry See also:

• KUTAIAH, KUTAYA

Kutaiah and its dependencies . Two years before his accession he also married a daughter of the emperor See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Palaeologus .