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Uzbekistan: A miniature painting depicting the great Central Asian conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), surrounded by his successors and descendants.

Uzbekistan: A miniature painting depicting the great Central Asian conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), surrounded by his successors and descendants.

Timur (1336β€”1405) was the conqueror of Western, South and Central Asia, founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty (1370–1405) in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived until 1857 as the Mughal Empire in India.

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