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Wikipedia: Timur (from the Perso-Arabic form تیمور Tīmūr, ultimately from Chagatai Temür "iron"; 8 April 1336 – 18 February 1405), also known as Tamerlane (from Tīmūr-e Lang "Timur the Lame"), was a 14th-century conqueror of much of western and central Asia, and founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty (1370–1405) in Central Asia, which survived until 1857 as the Mughal Empire of India. Born into the Mongol Barlas tribe who ruled in Central Asia, Timur was in his lifetime a controversial figure, and remains so today. He sought to restore the Mongol Empire, yet his heaviest blow was against the Islamized Tatar Golden Horde.
![[Tamerlane's tomb seen from a distance]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Tomb_of_the_Family_of_Tamerlane_in_Samarcande_s.jpg "Tamerlane's tomb seen from a distance")
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![[A picture of Timur]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/_D0_91_D1_8E_D1_81_D1_82_D0_A2_D0_B0_D0_BC_D0_B5_D1_80_D0_BB_D0_B0_D0_BD_D0_B0_s.jpg "A picture of Timur")
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![[Timur (Tamerlane)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Timur_reconstruction03_s.jpg "Timur (Tamerlane)")
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![[Letter of Timur to Charles VI of France, 1402, a witness to Timurid relations with Europe]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Letter_of_Tamerlane_to_Charles_VI_1402_s.jpg "Letter of Timur to Charles VI of France, 1402, a witness to Timurid relations with Europe")
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![[Gur-e Amir, the tomb of Timur.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Tomb_of_Timur_s.jpg "Gur-e Amir, the tomb of Timur.")
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![[Timur defeats the Sultan of Delhi, Nasir Al]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Timur_defeats_the_sultan_of_Delhi_s.jpg "Timur defeats the Sultan of Delhi, Nasir Al")
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![[Statue of Timur in his birthplace of Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Amir_TemurZoomed_s.jpg "Statue of Timur in his birthplace of Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan")
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