Tamerlane

Related Category: Central Asian History: Biographies

see Timur.

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Timur - c.1336–1405, Mongol conqueror, b. Kesh, near Samarkand. He is also called Timur Leng [Timur the lame]. He was the son of a tribal leader, and he claimed (apparently for the first time in 1370) t...