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Article: Tamerlane's career and its uses.
- Article from:
- Journal of World History
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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The Turco-Mongolian conqueror Tamerlane, or Temur, who ruled from 1370 to 1405, had a significant impact on the world of his time. He founded a state covering the present Iran and Central Asia, crushed the army of the Ottoman sultan Yildirim Beyezit, and destroyed the power of the Mongol Golden Horde. To the Europeans and Byzantines, Temur's destruction of the Ottoman menace was a reprieve from danger, and for the emerging Muscovite state, the weakening of the Golden Horde proved a useful opportunity. Within the Middle East Temur reestablished the frontier between the steppe and the agricultural regions, and founded a dynasty famous for its cultural brilliance. After his ...