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تیمور

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

بنیان‌گذار امپراتوری تیموری (۱۳۷۰–۱۴۰۵)

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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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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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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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