In 1402, after the Battle of Ankara, Timur organized his armies and began a campaign to wipe out the Ottomans. Without a Sultan, the Ottoman lands in Anatolia fell easily. By 1403, all of Anatolia was under Timurid rule. Timur devised a plan with the Byzantine emperor Andronikos V Palaiologos, to finish off the Ottomans by taking their capital Edirne. Palaiologos more than happily agreed. Timur marched his army of 50,000 across Constantinople, backed up by 10,000 Greeks. When Timur reached Edirne, he was rather shocked at what he saw. Along with a Ottoman army 50,000 strong, there was a Venetian army ready to assist the Ottomans. Timur was mad, but Palaiologos was furious, because the Venetain's were a enemy of the Byzantine's for centuries. In the following battle, Timur's army annhiliate