A bitter war with Timur, also known…

1396 CE to 1539 CE

A bitter war with Timur, also known as Timur Lenk (or Timur the Lame, from which Tamerlane is derived), has contributed to the eventual Mongol decline in Eurasia.

He is a man of aristocratic Transoxianian birth who falsely claims descent from Chinggis.

Timur had reunited Turkestan and the lands of the Ilkhans; in 1391 he had invaded the Eurasian steppes and defeated the Golden Horde.

He ravaged the Caucasus and southern Russia in 1395.

Timur's empire disintegrates, however, soon after his death in 1405.

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Sarai Ryazanskaya Oblast Russia View →

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Timur View →

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Tatars View → Rus' people View → Cuman people, or Western Kipchaks, also called Polovtsy, Polovtsians) View → Mongols View → Mongol Empire View → Il-khanate View → Russians (East Slavs) View → Timurid Empire View → Crimean Tatars View → Golden Horde, Khanate of the (Kipchak Khanate) View →

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Timur (Tamerlane), Conquests of View → Timur's invasions of Georgia View → Timur's (Tamerlane's) Invasion of Russia View →

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