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Ulugh-Beg
Ulugh-Beg or Ulug-Beg , 1394-1449, Timurid ruler and astronomer. The grandson of Timur (or Tamerlane), he succeeded to the Timurid domain in 1447. A patron of the arts and sciences, he established an astronomical observatory at Samarkand and compiled a star catalog (1420-37). His work, written i... Read more
Nicholas Rowe
Nicholas Rowe , 1674-1718, English dramatist. An ardent Whig, he was able to gain various government posts during the course of his life. In 1715 he became poet laureate. His first two plays, The Ambitious Stepmother (1700) and Tamerlane (1701), established his reputation as a popular playwright... Read more
Babur
Babur [Turk.,=lion], 1483-1530, founder of the Mughal empire of India. His full name was Zahir ud-Din Muhammad. A descendant of Timur (Tamerlane) and of Jenghiz Khan, he succeeded (1494) to the principality of Fergana in central Asia. His early life was spent in an ultimately unsuccessful struggl... Read more
Timur
Timur or Tamerlane , c.1336-1405, Mongol conqueror, b. Kesh, near Samarkand. He is also called Timur Leng [Timur the lame]. He was the son of a tribal leader, and he claimed (apparently for the first time in 1370) to be a descendant of Jenghiz Khan . With an army composed of Turks and Turkic-sp... Read more
Samarkand
Samarkand , city (1991 pop. 395,000), capital of Samarkand region, in Uzbekistan, on the Trans-Caspian RR. It is one of the oldest existing cities in the world and the oldest of Central Asia. At the time of its greatest splendor medieval Samarkand was a fabulous city of palaces and gardens, with pav... Read more
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe 1809-49, American poet, short-story writer, and critic, b. Boston. He is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature. His skillfully wrought tales and poems convey with passionate intensity the mysterious, dreamlike, and often macabre ... Read more
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan , republic (2005 est. pop. 4,952,000), 188,455 sq mi (488,100 sq km), central Asia. It borders on Afghanistan and Iran in the south, Uzbekistan in the east and northeast, Kazakhstan in the northwest, and the Caspian Sea in the west. Ashgabat (Ashkhabad) is its capital and largest city... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Tamerlane"

Tamerlane
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Tamerlane Tamerlane (1336-1405) was a celebrated Turko-Mongol conqueror whose victories...part of western Asia. His vast empire disintegrated at his death. Tamerlane or Timur (Tamerlane is a corruption of the Persian Timur-i Lang...
Tamerlane and Other Poems
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Tamerlane and Other Poems, first collection by Poe , anonymously published in Boston (1827). The title piece is a narrative poem, revised...
Al-Kashi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...subject to periodic raids by the conqueror Tamerlane, an Uzbek of Mongol heritage and a Muslim...ten years before Al-Kashi's birth, Tamerlane founded his empire, which was a restoration...world. With Peace, Economic Prosperity Tamerlane began conquering territory to the west...
Babar the Conqueror
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Conqueror (1483-1530) was a descendant of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan, who founded the Mughal...father's side of the great conqueror Tamerlane and on his mother's of the Mongol overlord...in these great conqueror's wakes. Tamerlane's central Asian Empire lay divided...
Timur
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Timur or Tamerlane , c.1336-1405, Mongol conqueror, b. Kesh, near Samarkand...Hookham (1962) and B. F. Manz (1989); J. H. Sanders, tr., Tamerlane (tr. of late 14th-century Arabic work by A. Ibn Arabshah, 1936...
Uzbeks
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...fourteenth century, by the empire of the Mongol chieftain Tamerlane (Timur). Around the fifteenth century, the Uzbeks began...ancient heroes play an important role in Uzbek folklore. One is Tamerlane (1336 – 1405), a Mongol who conquered parts of...
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...pilgrimage to Mecca and two trips to Damascus, the second one occasioned by the campaign of Faraj against Tamerlane in 1400. Tamerlane invited Ibn Khaldun to visit his camp; his conversations with the world conqueror, reported in his autobiography...
Uzbekistan and Uzbeks
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...the region they occupy today. Indeed, it is accepted that Tamerlane (Timur the Lame) was an Uzbek and the first Uzbek unifier...Central Asia. Interestingly, the Timurid dynasty under Babur (Tamerlane's grandson) was defeated by Shaybani Khan, an Uzbek leader...
Poe, Edgar Allan
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...violent quarrel the youth went to Boston, where he published Tamerlane (1827), issued anonymously at his own expense, which found...sonnet “ To Science ” and “ Tamerlane.” Admitted to West Point (1830), he soon set...
Edgar Allan Poe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...enlistment in the U.S. Army. In 1827, as well, he had his Tamerlane and Other Poems published at his own expense, but the book...reconciliation with his guardian. That same year Al Araaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems was published in Baltimore and received a...

Dictionary entries related to "Tamerlane"

Tamerlane
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Tamerlane (1336–1405), Mongol ruler of Samarkand 1369–...Marlowe in Tamburlaine the Great (1590). From the late 16th century, Tamerlane has been referred to as the type of a savage conqueror or despot.
Bravery
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 12] Bajazet fierce, reckless, indomitable Sultan of Turkey; Tamerlane ’ s captive. [Br. Lit.: Tamerlane , Walsh Modern , 39] Beowulf singlehandedly fights firebreathing dragon. [Br. Lit.: Beowulf...
Conquerors
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...c. 1476 – 1541) with small force, destroyed Incan empire. [Span. Hist.: EB , 14: 487 – 488] Tamerlane (1336 – 1405) Tartar; vanquished Persia and India. [Asian Hist.: Brewer Dictionary , 1061] William the Conqueror...
Lameness
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...x2013; 1945) 32nd president of U.S.; stricken with polio and confined to wheelchair. [Am. Hist.: NCE , 2355] Tamerlane ( 1336 – 1405 ) Mongol conqueror, his name a corruption of Timur i Long (Timur the Lame). [Asian Hist.: Ben...
Georgia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...territorial expansion and cultural achievement cut short by Mongol destruction. Revival was likewise curtailed by the ravages of TAMERLANE (1386–1403) and national decline was confirmed by the decision of Alexander I to split the kingdom between his...
Bayezid I
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Constantinople (1394–1401), and defeated a Christian army at Nicopolis in 1396. His thrust into eastern Asia Minor, however, brought him to disaster at Ankara in 1402, and he died a captive of his conqueror, TAMERLANE .
Ottoman
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...successors to include all of Asia Minor and much of SE Europe. After setbacks caused by the invasion of the Mongol ruler Tamerlane in 1402, Constantinople was captured in 1453 and the empire reached its zenith under Suleiman in the mid 16th century. It...
Bajazet
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Bajazet ruler of the Ottomans (1389–1402), who overran the provinces of the eastern Empire and besieged Constantinople, but was defeated and taken prisoner by Timor ( Tamerlane ).
Tamerlano
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Tamerlano ( ‘Tamerlane’ ). Opera in 3 acts by Handel to lib. by N. F. Haym adapted from Piovene's Tamerlano (1711) and from Bajazet...
Ottoman empire
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...to include all of Asia Minor and much of south-east Europe. Ottoman power received a severe check with the invasion of Tamerlane in 1401, but expansion resumed several decades later, resulting in the capture of Constantinople in 1453. The empire reached...

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Tamerlane: return of the sword of Islam: one of history's great leaders, Tamerlane waged a series of bloody wars in the 14th and 15th centuries to build a mighty empire in Central Asia around his glorious capital, Samarkand. Now the government of Uzbekistan is manipulating his reputation to serve its political agenda.
Magazine article from: Geographical; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Amir Temur. Better known in the West as Tamerlane, he is a household name throughout the...Uzbekistan's seven decades of Soviet rule, Tamerlane was vilified by the state, which feared...Academy of Sciences, published a book on Tamerlane, a revisionist attempt to set the record...
Tamerlane Ventures: Buy or Sell at $0.90?
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WORLD-CLASS BUTCHER TAMERLANE NOW A HERO IN UZBEKISTAN.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 1/5/1998; 700+ words ; ...death, the man known to the West as Tamerlane has achieved one of his most surprising...this nation of 23 million people. But Tamerlane acquired such lofty status only under...Islam Karimov. While Karimov says the Tamerlane campaign is a matter of national pride...
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King of the Golden Horde Jonathan Sumption applauds this attempt to rescue the reputation of Tamerlane
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Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 9/1/2004; ; 595 words ; Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World...being laid on with a Silk Road trowel. Tamerlane, Mogul emperor of Samarkand and one...of Europe knew it. In a bid to halt Tamerlane's westward expansion they sent obsequious...