Tamerlan
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Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic: تیمور - Tēmōr, "iron") (1336 – February 1405), known in the West as Tamerlan/e, was a 14th century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent. Alternative spellings of his name are: Temur, Taimur, Timur Lenk, Timur-i Leng, Temur-e Lang, Amir Timur, Aqsaq Timur, as well as the Latinized Tamerlane and Tamburlaine. As many as 17 million people may have died from his conquests.
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 Mongol dominions |
.GIF) Timur-i Lenks (1365-1405) empire |
 Zemljevid imperija Timurja Lenka |
 Statue of Amir Temur (Temoer Lenk) in Shakhrisabz, Usbekistan |
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 Monument of Emir Timur in Samarqand |
 Monument of Emir Timur in Toshkent |
 Musée des Timourides à Tashkent |
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 Timur. Forensic facial reconstruction by M.Gerasimov. 1941 |
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 His tomb in 1895 |
[edit] Timur/Tamerlan in art
 Battleground of Timur and Egyptian King, 1515, conserved in Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran |
 Bernhard Rode: Scene from Timur's Life, 1780-81 |
 Johann Nepomuk Geiger: Timur puts Sultan Bayezid in a cage, 1860 |
 Stanislaw Chlebowski: Sultan Bayezid I imprisoned by Timur, 1878 |
