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The Turko-Mongol conqueror Tamerlane captures the city of Damascus on March 24, 1401 from the Mamlukin Sultanate, subjecting the city to intense plunder and destruction with some estimates of up to 50,000 killed. His victory, weakened Mamluk authority in Syria and lead to Tamerlane’s subsequent victory over the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, at the Battle of Ankara in 1402. More