Sword of Tamerlane. The story of the mysterious disappearance of a legendary weapon The Sword of Tamerlane is not just a weapon, but a true legend that has thrilled the…
Timur was born in March 1336 in the village of Khoja-Ilgar, near the fortress of Kesh (modern Uzbek city of Shakhrisabz). In that era, the ruler of Kesh was a…
Timur, or Tamerlane, as he was nicknamed in the West, belongs, along with Attila and Genghis Khan, among the conquerors who most of all shook the imagination of contemporaries and…
This boundless land seems to be created to give birth to legends. Bottomless blue sky, endless dry steppe, waves of pale waddle and wind walking in all directions. Mongolia. A…
In 1941, a group of Soviet scientists conducted archaeological excavations in Tamerlane's mausoleum. A day later, the Great Patriotic War broke out. Having compared the two events, the frightened participants…
In the last third of the XIV century, Amir Timur, a talented military leader and ruler of Maverannahr (the Arabic name for the Amu Darya and Syr Darya interfluve), stepped…
Neither Chinese emperors, nor Turkic khans, nor Russian princes, nor Muslim emirs, nor European kings could come up with tactics to defeat the Mongol army. Although, it would seem, their…
The great Central Asian ruler Tamerlane died at the age of 68. The age for the Middle Ages is decent. However, "lame Timur" was not going to visit Allah. Death…
In the early 15th century, the most powerful ruler of Central Asia was Amir Tamerlane (Timur). Under his rule he was able by that time to unite all the territories…
Tamerlane began his military career as a commander of a band of brigands, which at other times numbered less than a dozen men. In the future, the successful ataman rose…
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