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2 days ago · Mother. Tekina Khatun. Religion. Sunni Islam. Timur, [b] also known as Tamerlane [c] (8 April 1336 [7] – 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.
Jun 13, 2024 · In the Yuan Dynasty, Temür Khan, a Uyghur, served as prime minister and Confucian master under Kublai Khan, promoting Chinese culture. Today, Weigongcun in Beijing, home to many universities, is named after the title "Duke of Wei", bestowed upon Temür Khan.
Jun 20, 2024 · After the death in 1357 of Transoxania’s current ruler, Amir Kazgan, Timur declared his fealty to the khan of nearby Kashgar, Tughluq Temür, who had overrun Transoxania’s chief city, Samarkand, in 1361. Tughluq Temür appointed his son Ilyas Khoja as governor of Transoxania, with Timur as his minister.
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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...
Jun 18, 2024 · His immediate successor was his grandson, Temür (1295–1307), who was able to keep Mongol rule intact and maintain his position against repeated attacks from the Ögödei branch of Genghis Khan’s family.
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4 days ago · Major changes occurred in the Mongol Empire in the late 1200s. Kublai Khan, after having conquered all of China and established the Yuan dynasty, died in 1294. He was succeeded by his grandson Temür Khan, who continued Kublai's policies.
Jun 18, 2024 · The Timurid dynasty was founded in 1370 by the Turkic warlord Temür, usually known in the west as Tamerlane (Temür the lame). Rising to power within the realm of Chinggis Khan’s second son Chaghadai, Temür established his capital at Samarqand and embarked on a career of conquest throughout the former Mongolian Empire and the Central ...
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3 days ago · The basic dilemma of Mongol rule in China—the Mongols’ inability to achieve a durable identification with Chinese civilian institutions and to modify the military and colonialist character of their rule—became more apparent under Kublai’s successors and reached a maximum under Togon-temür, the last Yuan ruler.
