Timur destroyed Buddhist establishments and raided areas in which Buddhism had flourished.

The Empire controlled nearly all former Byzantine lands surrounding the city, but the Byzantines were temporarily relieved when Timur invaded Anatolia in the Battle of Ankara in 1402.

Timur gave control of the Karamanid lands to Mehmet Bey, the oldest son of Aleaddin Ali Bey.

Following the sultan's defeat by the Mongols in 1402, Isfendiyar recognized the authority of the Mongol khan Timur, who confirmed him in the traditional Jandarids ' lands of Kastamonu, Kalecik, Tosya, and Çankırı.

For over three decades, Timur used the Chagatai lands as the base for extensive conquests, conquering Herat in Afghanistan, Shiraz in Persia, Baghdad in Iraq, and Damascus in Syria.

Timur therefore marched into the Muzaffarid lands.

The Injuid lands now fell into the hands of the Muzaffarids, who would hold them until the onslaught of Timur forty years later.

He submitted to the conqueror in Nishapur, and Timur responded by ravaging Amir Vali's lands in Gurgan and Mazandaran.

* 1395 – Tokhtamysh – Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga.

Also is the site of a battle that Timur defeated Tokhtamysh in 1395.

Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde, sought Vytautas ' help when he was removed from the throne in 1395 after his defeat by Timur.

In 1395, the scenario reached its climax as Timur attacked the Golden Horde and defeated Tokhtamysh at the Terek.

Timur sacked New Sarai around 1395, and Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate sacked New Sarai around 1502.

* 1395: In the Golden Horde empire, Amir Timur defeated Toktamish and razes Serai to the ground.

In 1395, after losing the Tokhtamysh – Timur war, Tokhtamysh was dethroned by the party of Khan Temur Qutlugh and Emir Edigu, supported by Timur.

In 1395 the city was sacked by Timur.

The Mongols burned it in 1239, Uzbeg Khan ravaged it in 1316, Timur sacked it in 1395, and the Tatars devastated it in 1414.

Most of his reign was spent fighting a civil war and resisting rebellion ; Timur was even forced to move his capital from Kandahar to Kabul due to insurgency.

He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother ; hence, he identified his lineage as Timurid and Chaghatay-Turkic.

They were long redoutable both as warriors and as armourers, but by the end of the fourteenth century they seem to have come thoroughly under the Tartar rule ; for they fought on the side of Toctamish Khan of Sarai against the great Timur.

Evidence gathered from linguistic studies around Aceh confirms that a very strong Champan cultural influence existed in Indonesia ; this is indicated by the use of the chamic or Aceh – Chamic language as the main language in the coastal districts of Aceh Besar, Pidie, Bireun, Aceh Utara, Kota Lhokseumawe, Aceh Timur, Aceh Barat, Aceh Barat Daya, and Aceh Jaya.

Hafez was supported by patronage from several successive local regimes: Shah Abu Ishaq, who came to power while Hafez was in his teens ; Timur at the end of his life ; and even the strict ruler Shah Mubariz ud-Din Muhammad ( Mubariz Muzaffar ).

" With the blows of my lustrous sword ," Timur complained, " I have subjugated most of the habitable globe ... to embellish Samarkand and Bokhara, the seats of my government ; and you would sell them for the black mole of some boy in Shiraz!

But the lasting monument of his literary fame is his excellent French version of Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi's Zafar Nama or History of Timur ( completed 828 A. H .; AD 1425 ), which was published posthumously ( 4 vols., Paris, 1722 ; Eng.

West Seram ( Kabupaten Seram Bagian Barat ), capital at Dataran Hunipopu, had a population ( 2003 ) of 140, 657 ; and Eastern Seram ( Kabupaten Seram Bagian Timur ), capital at Dataran Hunimoa, had a population ( 2003 ) of 78, 336.

The Empire had suffered hard from the interregnum ; the Mongols were still at large in the east, even though Timur had died in 1405 ; many of the Christian kingdoms of the Balkans had broken free of Ottoman control ; and the land, especially Anatolia, had suffered hard from the war.

Timur Shah Durrani, ( Pashto, Persian, Urdu, Arabic: ; 1748 – May 18, 1793 ) was the second ruler of the Durrani Empire from October 16, 1772, until his death in 1793.

Timur threatened to invade Syria, but Barkuk died in 1399 ; Bayezid I then invaded Syria, but came into conflict with Timur, who took Aleppo and other towns in 1400.

The conduct of the Emperor caused much discontent, and Yelu Timur, son of Ananda who attempted to take the throne in 1307, in conjunction with the heads of the Lama religion in China, formed a plot to displace him ; but this was discovered, and they were duly punished.

Selected examples include: Moses, speaking for the god of the Israelites, ordering the killing of all the Midianite women and male children ; the massacres of the Kalingas by Ashoka in India, the massacre of some 100, 000 Hindus by the Muslim troops of Timur ( Tamerlane ) or the Crusader massacres of Jews and Muslims in the Siege of Jerusalem ( 1099 ), to name a few examples drawn from a long list in history.

Timur Nurbakhitovich Bekmambetov (; ; born 25 June 1961 ) is a Russian director, producer and screenwriter who has worked on films and commercials.

Russian economist Yegor Gaidar was Arkady Gaidar's grandson ; Yegor Gaidar's father, Rear Admiral Timur Gaidar, was his son.

His work, however, contains many inaccuracies ; thus in reckoning the years of his service both with Bayezid and with Timur he is off unaccountably in multiples of two.

* Memoir of the Emperor Timur ( Malfuzat-i Timuri ) Timur's memoirs on his invasion of India ; describes in detail the massacre of Hindus, forced conversions to Islam and the plunder of the wealth of Hindustan ( India ).

Mirza was given to imperial prince ; a title or part of a name implying relationship to the Turk dynasties like Mughal dynasty ( the Imperial House of Timur ).

When the Sultanate weakened, it was attacked by emperor Timur from Central Asia ; his army marched to sack Delhi through this region in 1399, when its people fought it unsuccessfully.

* Gur-i-Amir Mausoleum: the burial place of Timur ; it contains a double shell dome for the achievement of a vertical effect

Cultural sites include: the National Museum of Afghanistan, notably displaying an impressive statue of Surya excavated at Khair Khana, the ruined Darul Aman Palace, the tomb of Mughal Emperor Babur at Bagh-e Babur, and Chehlstoon Park, the Minar-i-Istiqlal ( Column of Independence ) built in 1919 after the Third Afghan War, the mausoleum of Timur Shah Durrani, and the imposing Id Gah Mosque ( founded 1893 ).

Hailed by Constantine and home to the famous and blue mosque, a Muslim holy place once brought to ruin by Genghis Khan, rebuilt by Timur, ruined again by the Soviets, and more recently the Taliban.

Later Mongol leaders, such as Timur, destroyed many cities, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people, and did irrevocable damage to the ancient irrigation systems of Mesopotamia.

But he did not take up the title of sultan and nominally, continued to be a Rayat-i-Ala ( vassal ) of the Timurids, initially of Timur and after his death, his successor Shah Rukh, grandson of Timur.

Later, he did move towards more esoteric spirituality, and, failing to convert Timur, was executed in 1394 near Alinja castle in Nakhchivan by the ruler's son Miran Shah.

In April 1381 Timur arrived before the city, whose citizens were already demoralized and also aware of Timur's offer not to kill anyone that did not take part in the battle.

Muluk Sabzavari did become involved with the revolt of Hajji Beg of the Ja ' un-i Qurban ( which had been forcibly submitted to Timur's rule around 1381 ) in Tus in 1389, and afterwards sought refuge with the Muzaffarid Shah Mansur in Isfahan, but was eventually pardoned by Timur and given the governorship of Basra near the end of 1393.

When Timur gained control of the territory of the western Chagatai Khanate in the 1360s, he did not abolish the office of khan.

After 1393, he joined an alliance consisting of the Ottoman Empire, the Golden Horde and the principality of Siwas, but Timur was campaigning in Transcaucasia, Russia and India and did not attack.