Timur

Also known as Timur the Lame, Timur Beg Gurkhani, Temur, Tiemuer, Emir Timur, Amir Timur, Tīmur ibn Taragay Barlas, Timur the Tartar

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.

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Timur (1320s–1405), also known as Tamerlane, was a Central Asian conqueror who built a vast empire across Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia and became legendary as an undefeated military strategist, though also remembered for extreme brutality. He founded the Timurid dynasty and sparked a cultural renaissance by patronizing scholars and poets, making him significant both as a military figure and as a promoter of arts and learning.

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Key facts

Royalty.name: Timur
Royalty.full name: Shuja-ud-din Timur
Royalty.regnal name: Shihab-e-Qiran Amir Timur Gurqani
Royalty.image: Timur reconstruction03.jpg
Royalty.caption: Facial reconstruction from Timur's skull, by Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov
Royalty.reign: 9 April 137018 February 1405
Royalty.coronation: 9 April 1370, Balkh
Royalty.successor: Khalil Sultan
Royalty.succession: Amir of the Timurid Empire
Royalty.spouse: Saray Mulk Khanum
Royalty.spouse type: Consort
Royalty.spouses type: Wives
Royalty.issue link: Descendants
Royalty.dynasty: Timurid
Royalty.father: Amir Taraghai
Royalty.mother: Tekina Khatun
Royalty.birth_date: 1320s
Royalty.birth_place: near Kesh, Chagatai Khanate

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Place of birth: Shahrisabz
Place of death: Otrar
Father: Taraqai
Occupation: warrior
Position held: Amir
Languages spoken: Middle Mongolian
Religion: Sunni Islam
Family: Timurid dynasty
Noble title: Amir
Military rank: khagan
Image: Timur seated (earliest known portrait), Timurid genealogy, 1405-1409, Samarkand (TSMK, H2152).jpg
Height: 1.72

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Commons category: Timur
date of birth: 1336-04-08
date of death: 1405-02-18
place of burial: Gur-e Amir
Commons Creator page: Timur
topic's main category: Category:Timur
Commons gallery: Tamerlan
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
time period: Timurid Empire
medical condition: limp
replaced by: Khalil Sultan
allegiance: khagan
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has works in the collection: Archives nationales
different from: Tam Lin

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Encyclopedic overview

39 sections

Contents

Ancestry
Early life
Military leader
Rise to power
Legitimization of Timur's rule
Period of expansion
Conquest of Persia
Tokhtamysh–Timur war
Ismailis
Campaign against the Delhi Sultanate
Capture of Delhi (1398)
Campaigns in the Caucasus and the Levant
Invasion of Anatolia
Attempts to attack the Ming dynasty
Death
Succession
Religious views
Personality
Exchanges with Europe
Legacy
Historical sources
''Malfuzat-i Timuri''
European views
Exhumation and alleged curse
In the arts
Wives and concubines
Descendants
Sons of Timur
Daughters of Timur
Sons of Umar Shaikh Mirza I
Sons of Jahangir
Sons of Miran Shah
Sons of Shah Rukh Mirza
See also
Notes
Citations
Sources
Further reading
External links

Born into the Turkicized Mongol confederation of the Barlas in Transoxiana (now in Uzbekistan) in the 1320s, Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370 and from there he led a series of military campaigns defeating the Khans of the Golden Horde, the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire, as well as the Delhi Sultanate in the Indian subcontinent, thus becoming the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world. These conquests led to the creation of the Timurid Empire, which fragmented shortly after his death. He spoke several languages, including the Karluk Turkic language Chagatai (an ancestor of modern Uzbek and Uyghur), as well as Classical Mongolian and New Persian, which he used for diplomatic correspondence.

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