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Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Timur \Timur\, Timur-leng \Timur-leng\prop. n. See Tamerlane . Syn: Tamerlane, Timour.
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Timur ( Timūr , Chagatai : , ; 9 April 1336— 18 February 1405), historically known as Tamerlane ( 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 ...
Usage examples of timur.
Timur was glad to receive him, as this royal Mongol might prove useful, and gave him three cities: Otrar, Sabran, and Signakhi on the north bank of the Syr Darya, the northern of two rivers feeding into the Aral Sea.
But when Timur mentioned the firehoses he remarked spitefully: "And about time, too.
I don't know how it would have ended if it hadn't turned out that he was from Mnas and Timur, it seems, even knew how to speak the language.
And Timur, who moved in the same circle and who received commissions from these same wives and daughters--for rather a different kind of objet d'art--often used to run into him.
Under the reign of Timur, or Tamerlane, one of his subjects, a descendant of Zingis, still bore the regal appellation of Khan and the conqueror of Asia contented himself with the title of Emir or Sultan.