Timur, [b] also known as Tamerlane[c] (1320s – 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.

Timur (Emir Timur), Tamerlane or Tamerbeg (9 April 1336 – 17 February 1405) was a Turco-Mongol conqueror in the 14th century who is regarded as one of history's greatest military leaders and strategists. He founded the Timurid Empire in 1370.

Feb 20, 2025 · Timur, also called Timur the Lame and Tamerlane, Turkic conqueror, chiefly remembered for the barbarity of his conquests from India and Russia to the Mediterranean Sea and for the cultural achievements of his dynasty.

Jul 21, 2019 · Tamerlane (April 8, 1336–February 18, 1405) was the ferocious and terrifying founder of the Timurid empire of Central Asia, eventually ruling much of Europe and Asia. Throughout history, few names have inspired such terror as his.

The empire was founded by Timur (also known as Tamerlane), a warlord of Turco-Mongol lineage, who established the empire between 1370 and his death in 1405.

Timur (c. 1336-1405) was born in 1336 in central Asia, about 50 miles south of the city we know today as Samarkand in modern Uzbekistan. He was Turkic and descended from the Mongols. Timur is also known by Western scholars today as Tamerlane, a name which developed from the words “Timur the Lame.”

Timur (9 April 1336 – 17 or 18 February 1405) was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Cental Asia, and the first ruler in the Timurid dynasty. In Turkic, timur means iron. In some sources, he is known as Temūr, Temür, Amir Timur, Timur-i lang, or Tamerlane. In Persian, Timur-i lang means Temur the Lame.

Apr 8, 2022 · Born in the early 14th century in the Chaghatayid Khanate, Tamerlane, also known as Timur the Lame or Tamerlane the Conqueror, is best remembered for rising from an obscure sheep bandit to one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever seen.

Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic): تیمور - Tēmōr, iron) (1336 – February 1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent Timur (timoor') or Tamerlane (tăm'urlān), (c.1336–1405), the Mongol conqueror, was born at Kesh, near Samarkand. Timur was a member of the Turkic Barlas clan of Mongols, conqueror of ...

Timur , or Tamerlane or Tamburlaine , (born 1336, Kesh, near Samarkand, Transoxania—died Feb. 19, 1405, Otrar, near Chimkent), Turkic conqueror of Islamic faith whose conquests reached from India and Russia to the Mediterranean Sea.