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8 unusual facts about Timur


Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d’Ohsson

His best known work deals with the history of the Mongols from Genghis Khan to Timur.

Antong

Unfortunately, he was captured due to the insurgency of his own underlings, and was given to the Mengu-Timur, khan of the Golden Horde, who in turn passed him on to Kaidu.

History of Himachal Pradesh

Timur and Sikander Lodi also marched through the lower hills of the state and captured a number of forts and fought many battles.

Khizr Khan

During his reign, coins were struck in the name of Amir Timur and after his death in the name of his successor Shah Rukh.

Khizr Khan ibn Malik Sulaiman (reigned 1414–21) was the founder of the Sayyid dynasty, the ruling dynasty of the Delhi sultanate, in northern India soon after the invasion of Timur and the fall of the Tughlaq dynasty.

He did not take up any royal title from fear of Amir Timur and contended himself with the titles of Rayat-i-Ala (Sublime Banners) and Masnad-i-Aali or (Most High Post).

Salima Sultan Begum

It united two streams of descent from Ali Shukr Beg, i.e. the Blacksheep Turkomans from Bairam Khan's side and Timur from Salima's side as Salima was a Timurid through her maternal grandfather, Emperor Babur, and through Mahmud, one of her great-grandfathers.

Sayyid dynasty

The central authority of the Delhi Sultanate had been fatally weakened by the successive invasion of Timur and his sack of Delhi in 1398.


Alaattin Ali of Karaman

However, few years later following the defeat of Beyazıt by Timur in the battle of Ankara the beylik was restored.

Aq Qoyunlu

The Aq Qoyunlu Turkomans first acquired land in 1402, when Timur granted them all of Diyar Bakr in present-day Turkey.

Chin Timur Khan

Timur was a commander under the service of Emperor Babur during his conquests.

Dorut Tilavat

The lure for Timur was establishing a spiritual connection with a renowned and scholarly family of Bukhara, which also happened to be a direct descendant of Muhammad.

Euroset

The company was founded in April 1997 by Timur Artemyev and Yevgeny Chichvarkin.

Humayun

Timur himself had divided his territories between Pir Muhammad, Miran Shah, Khalil Sultan and Shah Rukh, which resulted in inter-family warfare.

Il gran Tamerlano

The story of Il gran Tamerlano is based on events surrounding the Battle of Ankara of 1402, fought between the forces of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I and the Turco-Mongol ruler Timur, who is known in English-speaking countries as Tamerlane.

Invasions of Afghanistan

Invaders in the history of Afghanistan include Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Timur, the Mughal Empire, Russian Tsars, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and currently a coalition force of NATO troops, the majority of which are from the United States, following the US-led invasion which began on October 7, 2001, Operation Enduring Freedom.

Johann Schiltberger

After Timur's death (February 17, 1405) his German runner first became a slave of Shah Rukh, the ablest of Timur's sons; then of Miran Shah, a brother of Shah Rukh; then of Abu Bekr, a son of Miran Shah, whose camp roamed up and down Armenia.

On Bayezid's overthrow at the Battle of Ankara (July 20, 1402), Schiltberger passed into the service of Bayezid's conqueror Timur: he now appears to have followed Timur to Samarkand, and perhaps also to Armenia and Georgia.

Khalil Sultan

Timur's appointed successor Pir Muhammad was quickly cast aside, and Khalil gained control of Samarkand.

Khanzada

Khizar Khan had ingratiated himself with Timur and by that means had obtained virtual control of Hindustan.

Malkoçoğlu family

He was in command of the Sivas fort during the Timurid invasion of Anatolia and defended it with 3000 soldiers against Timur's 200,000 men for 18 days.

Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov

He studied the skulls and meticulously reconstructed the faces of more than 200 people, including Yaroslav the Wise, Ivan the Terrible, Friedrich Schiller, Rudaki and, most famously, Timur (Tamerlane).

Orbelian Dynasty

The Orbelians survived the arrival of Timur Lenk and his Turkmen hordes in the 1380s, but in the collapse of Timur's empire into warring factions, Smbat, the last firm Orbelian ruler of Syunik, chose the wrong side and, on the capture of his stronghold of Vorotnaberd (south of Sisian) in 1410, decamped for Georgia where he died.

Orda Khan

Orda Ichen was the first-born son of Jochi, his younger brothers were Batu, Berke, Shayban, Sinkur, Toga-Timur and Baul-Teval.

Preference falsification

Economist Robert H. Frank reviewed Timur Kuran's book and offered his own thoughts on the political economy of preference falsification.

Suraj Kund Sunam

Suraj Kund Sunam is a large Sun temple, located to the east of Sunam city (dated to the Vedic period), about 1.5 kilometres (1 mi) away in the tahsil and sub division of the Sangrur District, was destroyed by Timur or Mohammad Ghaznavi.

Timur Taymazov

Timur is a member of the Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Timurid

Timurid dynasty (Timurid empire, Timurid emirates) of Central Asia, founded by Timur

Timurite movement

The Timurite movement or Timur movement (Тимуровское движение) was an altruistic youth volunteering movement in the Soviet Union promoted via mass youth organizations of Little Octobrists and Young Pioneers.

Tuka

Buqa Temür (alternately Tuka Timur), khan of the Chagatai Khanate (1272?-1282)


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