Siege of Damascus (1400)

Siege of Damascus
	; Timur defeating the Mamluk Sultan Nasir-ad-Din Faraj
Date	December 1400 – March 1401
Location	Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate; (present day Syria)
Result	Timurid victory
Belligerents
Timurid Empire	Mamluk Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Timur	Nasir-ad-Din Faraj
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	All civilians killed except the artisans taken to Samarkhand and a tower of 20,000 skulls is built outside the city.

The siege of Damascus (also known as the Sack of Damascus and the Capture of Damascus) was a major event in 1400–01 during the war between the Timurid Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate.

^ Unknown. "Battle of Ankara". A Mughal book illustration.
^ Rafis Abazov, Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 56.
^ Europe in the Late Middle Ages, ed. John Rigby Hale, John Roger Loxdale Highfield, Beryl Smalley, (Northwestern University Press, 1965), 150;"Timur, after defeating the Mamluks in 1400, won a decisive victory over the Ottomans near Ankara in 1402".

[1] Unknown. "Battle of Ankara". A Mughal book illustration.

[2] Rafis Abazov, Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 56.

[3] Europe in the Late Middle Ages, ed. John Rigby Hale, John Roger Loxdale Highfield, Beryl Smalley, (Northwestern University Press, 1965), 150;"Timur, after defeating the Mamluks in 1400, won a decisive victory over the Ottomans near Ankara in 1402".

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Siege of Damascus (1400)

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