Tamerlane
Proper noun
Meaning
Tamerlane
a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia
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Examples
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000, Penguin Books, 2008.
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000 (2008).
It became part of the Timurids from the 14th century to the 15th century, a dynasty founded by Timur (Tamerlane) that began rebuilding cities and towns.
In 1402, Tamerlane stormed the town and massacred almost all the inhabitants.
It was at this time that his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with the anonymous collection of poems Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
Painting in Iran is thought to have reached a climax during the Tamerlane era, when outstanding masters such as Kamaleddin Behzad gave birth to a new style of painting.