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3 days ago · Timur, also known as Tamerlane (8 April 1336 – 17–18 February 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Timur, also called Timur the Lame and Tamerlane, Turkic conqueror, chiefly remembered for the barbarity of his conquests from India and Russia to the Mediterranean Sea and for the cultural achievements of his dynasty. Learn more about Timur’s life and conquests in this article.
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- Timur was the last Central Asian conqueror to achieve great military successes as a leader of nomad warrior lords, ruling both agricultural and pas...
- Timur was a member of the Turkicized Barlas tribe, a Mongol subgroup that had settled in Transoxania (now roughly corresponding to Uzbekistan) afte...
- Timur led a small nomad band and, by guile and force of arms, established dominion over Transoxania by the 1360s. About 1370 Timur proclaimed himse...
- Timur spent his life leading a nearly constant military campaign. The nomadic tactics of mobility and surprise were his major weapons of attack. He...
- Under Timur and his successors, Samarkand became a centre of scholarship and science. His mausoleum there, the Gūr-e Amīr, is one of the gems of Is...
2 days ago · The Ghaznavids retook Ghazni, but lost the city to the Ghuzz Turks who in turn lost it to Muhammad of Ghor. In response, the Ghaznavids fled to Lahore, their regional capital. In 1186, Lahore was conquered by the Ghurid sultan, Muhammad of Ghor, with its Ghaznavid ruler, Khusrau Malik, imprisoned and later executed.
5 days ago · He entered Iran in 1380 and in 1393 reduced the Jalāyirids after taking their capital, Baghdad. In 1402 he captured the Ottoman sultan, Bayezid I, near Ankara. He conquered Syria and then turned his attention to campaigns far to the east of his tumultuously acquired and ill-cemented empire; he died in 1405
Mewar–Delhi Sultanate Wars. After the defeat of Chauhan ruler Prithviraj Chauhan in the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192 CE, the Delhi Sultanate, a successor to Ghurid dynasty, was established in the northern part of India. After conquering much of the Indo-Gangetic Plain the Sultans of Delhi now had turned their attention towards Rajputana.
3 days ago · Twelve years after Chaldiran, in 1526, the Timurid founder of the Mughal Empire in India, Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, deliberately mimicked Ottoman military strategies in his battle against the Delhi Sultanate, ruled at the time by Ibrahim Lodi. At the Battle of Panipat, Babur’s much smaller force of some 15,000 troops was dwarfed by the Lodi forces, which included some 100,000 men and 1,000 elephants.
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Jun 22, 2024 · KUALA LUMPUR: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, the King of Malaysia, today received an audience from the King of Bhutan, His Majesty King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. In a post on Sultan Ibrahim's official Facebook, the royal visit by the Bhutan king lasted two hours at Istana Bukit Serene, Johor Baru.
