Çubuk

Çubuk lies north of Ankara in a plain surrounded by the hills of central Anatolia. Its stream flows south toward the Ankara basin, watering fields along the valley. In 1402 the plain became the battlefield on which Timur defeated the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I. Bayezid was captured, and the defeat fractured Ottoman rule among his sons, beginning a struggle for the throne that lasted more than a decade.