Tamerlane

Temür
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A Timurid-era illustration of Timur
Reign	9 April 1370– 14 February 1405
Coronation	9 April 1370, Balkh
Predecessor	Amir Hussain
Successor	Khalil Sultan
Born	9 April 1336 Kesh, Chagatai Khanate (now in Uzbekistan)
Died	19 February 1405 (aged 68) Otrar, Farab, near Shymkent, Syr Darya (now in Kazakhstan)
Burial	Gur-e-Amir, Samarkand
Spouse	Saray Mulk Khanum Chulpan Mulk Agha Aljaz Turkhan Agha Tukal Khanum Dil Shad Agha Touman Agha Other consorts
Issue	Miran Shah Shahrukh Mirza
House	Barlas Timurid
Father	Amir Taraghai
Mother	Tekina Khatun
Religion	Islam

Timur (Persian: تیمور‎‎ Timūr, Chagatai: Temür, Uzbek: Temur; 9 April 1336— 18 February 1405), historically known as Tamerlane (Persian: تيمور لنگ‎‎ Timūr(-e) Lang, "Timur the Lame"), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia. He was also the first ruler in the Timurid dynasty.

Born into the Barlas confederation in Transoxiana on 9 April 1336, Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370. From that base, he led military campaigns across Western, South and Central Asia, Caucasus and southern Russia, and emerged as the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world after defeating the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire, and the declining Delhi Sultanate. From these conquests he founded the Timurid Empire, but this empire fragmented shortly after his death.

Timur is considered the last of the great nomadic conquerors of the Eurasian Steppe, and his empire set the stage for the rise of the more structured and lasting Gunpowder Empires in the 1500s and 1600s. According to John Joseph Saunders, Timur's background was Iranized and not steppe nomad.