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Tamerlane or Timur the Lame (1400)

Timur (1336-1405), sometimes spelled Taimur and historically best known as Amir Timur or Tamerlane ("Timur the Lame"), was a Turco-Mongol Persianate conqueror. As the founder of the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Iran and Central Asia, he became

Scholars estimate that his military campaigns caused the deaths of 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population at the time.

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