It is based on the true story of Timur, born in modern day Uzbekistan, who went on to founde the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia. Christian Mortensen ...

Talking about Timur Lang, the founder of the Timurid dynasty, Salman Rashid said the 14th century ruler was a despot and a “rapist”, who murdered scores of people, including Muslims ...

He founded the Timurid Empire and, over a period of 32 years, invaded an area now divided into 25 countries. At Timur's Ak-Saray Palace, we craned our necks first at the towering blue-tiled ruins ...

Ulugh Beg wasn’t just anyone, as his grandfather was none other than Tamerlane and his father, Shahrukh Mirza, served as governor of the eastern part of the Timurid Empire; therefore, of Persia and ...

Written in 1406 and preserved in the National Library, it is titled Embassy to Tamerlane and recounts how Clavijo traveled across Central Asia to seek an ally against the Ottomans in the ruler of the ...

Not bad for a time-keeping device built in the 1400s! By the way, Beg was the grandson of Tamerlane, the founder of the Timurid Empire and Uzbekistan's greatest hero. And Babar, who founded the ...

the Astrakhanid Dynasty of Asia, The Timurid Dynasty, the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea, the Khans of Qasim and Qazan, and the Giray Dynasty of the Khanate of Crimea, and the Shaybanid Dynasty of ...

Samarkand was the capital of the Timurid Empire. Timurid Empire was founded by the national hero of Uzbekistan, Amir Timur in 1370. It was one of the largest empires in history; as historians ...

founder of the Timurid Empire, an area comprising what is today Iran, Afghanistan, a big chunk of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Pakistan, North India and Turkey. Soon, Marco Polo evap-orates ...

visited historic sites of what served as the center of the Timurid Empire in the 14th century, such as a public square Registan and Gur-e-Amir, Turco-Mongol king Timur's mausoleum. Yoon and ...