Timur

Timur (Persian: تیمور Timūr, Chagatai: Temür "iron"; 8 April 1336 – 18 February 1405), historically known as Tamerlane in English (from Persian: تيمور لنگ, Timūr-e Lang, "Timur the Lame"), was a fourteenth-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty (1370–1405) in Central Asia, and great, great grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until 1857. Timur was in his lifetime a con... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]