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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 (1336—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.