Timurid Empire
The Timurid Empire was a Persianate Turco-Mongol[2] empire that included all of Uzbekistan, Iran, modern Afghanistan, and modern Central Asia. It also included large parts of modern Pakistan, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Caucasus. It was formed by the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) of the Timurid dynasty in the 14th century.
Timurid Empire تیموریان | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1370–1526 | |||||||||||||||||||
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.png) Timurid Empire at its greatest extent | |||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Empire in Middle east and Central Asia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Samarkand, Herat | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Chaghatai & Persian | ||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||||||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||||||
| Emir | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1370–1405 | Timur | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1506–1507 | Muzaffar Hussayn | ||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Medieval | ||||||||||||||||||
• | 1370 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Samarkand conquered by Uzbeks under Muhammad Shaybani | 1509 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Herat conquered by Shaybani | 1507 | ||||||||||||||||||
• | 1526 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1405 est.[1] | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). | ||||||||||||||||||
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a: Flag of the Timurid Empire according to the Catalan Atlas c. 1375 | |||||||||||||||||||
Timurid Empire Media
Coinage of Timur with 3 annulets symbol. Shaykh abu-Ishaq (Kazirun) mint. Undated, circa AH 795-807 AD 1393-1405
Detailed map of the Timurid Empire with its tributary states and sphere of influence in Western-Central Asia (1402-1403)
Forensic facial reconstruction of Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur from his skull, performed by the Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (1941)
Folio of Poetry From the Divan of Sultan Husayn Mirza, c. 1490. Brooklyn Museum.
Illustration from Jāmī's Rose Garden of the Pious, dated 1553. The image blends Persian poetry and Persian miniature into one, as is the norm for many works of the Timurid era.
Ten-Pointed Star Tile, mid-15th century. Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Protective armour of Temur's epoch.
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Coinage of Timur with "three annulets" symbol (at the center of the reverse side). Shaykh abu-Ishaq (Kazirun) mint. Undated, circa AH 795–807 AD 1393–1405.
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References
- ↑ Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D (December 2006). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires" (PDF). Journal of World-systems Research. 12 (2): 219–229. doi:10.5195/jwsr.2006.369. ISSN 1076-156X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
- ↑ Maria Subtelny, "Timurids in Transition", BRILL; illustrated edition (2007-09-30). pg 40: "Nevertheless, in the complex process of transition, members of the Timurid dynasty and their Turko-Mongol supporters became acculturate by the surrounding Persinate millieu adopting Persian cultural models and tastes and acting as patrons of Persian culture, painting, architecture and music." pg 41: "The last members of the dynasty, notably Sultan-Abu Sa'id and Sultan-Husain, in fact came to be regarded as ideal Perso-Islamic rulers who develoted as much attention to agricultural development as they did to fostering Persianate court culture."
