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Battle of Smyrna
1402
1402
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type of battle

war or event

Conquests of Tamerlane

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location

modern country

The Turko-Mongol Tamerlane destroyed the Ottoman army at Angora and marched against the Christian stronghold of Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey), where the Knights of St John had resisted repeated Ottoman attack. The port city fell by storm after a two-week siege and the nearby Genoese Islands of Chios and Lesbos quickly submitted to the conqueror, who then returned to Samarkand.


   
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