<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (October 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Bayezid took with him an army composed primarily of Balkan vassal troops, including Serbs led by Lazarevic . He soon faced an invasion of Anatolia by the Central Asian ruler Timur Lenk . Around 1400, Timur entered the Middle East . Timur Lenk pillaged a few villages in eastern Anatolia and commenced the conflict with the Ottoman Empire . In August, 1400, Timur and his horde burned the town of Sivas to the ground and advanced into the mainland . Their armies met outside of Ankara, at the Battle of Ankara, in 1402 . The Ottomans were routed and Bayezid was taken prisoner, later dying in captivity . A civil war, lasting from 1402 to 1413, broke out among Bayezid's surviving sons . Known in Ottoman history as the Interregnum, that struggle temporarily halted active Ottoman expansion in the Balkans . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr>

Which of the following statements does not accurately portray the ottoman empire