Timur

Timur (1320s17/18 February 1405), also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia. He was undefeated in battle and is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly. Timur is also considered a great patron of the arts, for he interacted with scholars and poets such as ibn Khaldun, Hafez, and Hafiz-i Abru. His reign led to the Timurid Renaissance.

Ecbatana () was an ancient city, the capital of the Median kingdom, and the first capital in Iranian history. It later became the summer capital of the Achaemenid and Parthian empires. It was also an important city during the Seleucid and Sasanian empires. Ecbatana was located in the Zagros Mountains, the east of central Mesopotamia, on Hagmatana Hill (Tappe-ye Hagmatāna). Its strategic location and resources probably made it a popular site even before the 1st millennium BC. It is identified with the current city of Hamadan.

The Gūr-i Amīr or Guri Amir (, ) is a mausoleum of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (also known as Tamerlane) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It occupies an important place in the history of Turkestan's architecture as the precursor for and had influence on later Mughal architecture tombs, including Gardens of Babur in Kabul, Humayun's Tomb in Delhi and the Taj Mahal in Agra, built by Timur's Indian descendants, Mughals that followed Indian culture with Central Asian influences. Mughals established the ruling Mughal dynasty of the Indian subcontinent. The mausoleum has been heavily restored over the

Spanish traveller and writer

panegyric book by Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi

princess of Chagatai Khanate and consort of Timur

Qarachar Noyan (b. 1166 – d. 1256), Qarachar Barulas also spelt Karachar, was a Mongol Elite Aristocrat, who was the member of Kiyat-Borjigid of Barlas and 3rd Cousin-Brother of Temujin Genghis Khan of Mongol

Biography of Timur by the historian Nizam ad-Din Shami

mausoleum in Samarkand

Islamic burial site in Herat, Afghanistan

Central Asian-European diplomacy in the Middle Ages

square in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

turkic inscription

manuscript saved in the Johns Hopkins University Library in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

invasions of the territory of modern Chechnya and Ingushetia

Turkish mosque

1398 sack