Timurid Empire

1370-15074.4 million km2Timur

RegionCentral Asia/Iran

Period1370-1507

Peak Size4.4 million km2

Founded ByTimur

About Timurid Empire

Founded by the conqueror Timur, whose campaigns stretched from Delhi to Ankara. He made Samarkand a showcase of tilework architecture. His successors presided over a cultural flowering in Herat and Samarkand, where Ulugh Beg built an observatory. Babur, a Timurid descendant, went on to found the Mughal Empire.

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