biography
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Timur
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known as Timur Lenk (Turkish ‘Timur the Lame’), English Tamerlane or Tamburlaine
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pronunciation:
[timoor]
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| lived:
| (1336–1405)
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| biography:
| Tatar conqueror, born near Samarkand, SE Uzbekistan. In 1369 he ascended the throne of Samarkand, subdued nearly all Persia, Georgia, and the Tatar empire, and conquered all the states between the Indus and the lower Ganges (1398). He won Damascus and Syria from the Mameluke sovereigns of Egypt, then defeated the Turks at Angora (1402), taking Sultan Bayezit prisoner. His death, while taking a 200 000 army to conquer Ming China, made possible the reopening of Chinese W trade routes, and a Persian trade mission to China (1409). |
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