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Uzbekistan: The Amir Timur feasting in Samarkand. Persian minaiture, c. late 15th century

Uzbekistan: The Amir Timur feasting in Samarkand. Persian minaiture, c. late 15th century

Timur (from the Perso-Arabic Tīmur, ultimately from Chagatai (Middle Turkic) Temur 'iron'; 8 April 1336 – 18 February 1405), often known as Tamerlane (from Tīmur-e Lang) in English, was a fourteenth-century 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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