01/01/2022 · Timur, also spelled Timour, byname Timur Lenk or Timurlenk (Turkish: “Timur the Lame”), English Tamerlane or Tamburlaine, (born 1336, Kesh, near Samarkand, Transoxania [now in Uzbekistan]—died February 19, 1405, Otrar, near Chimkent [now Shymkent, Kazakhstan]), Turkic conqueror, chiefly remembered for the barbarity of his conquests from India and Russia to the …

4. Mixed-Race Man. Timur had a rather diverse cultural background. His ethnic roots were a blend of Persian, Mongol, and Turkish descent. This stemmed from the fact that the Mongols in western Asia (particularly the Golden Horde) had blended with the Turkish peoples.

Answer (1 of 3): This is one of those questions that results in a never ending argument. Was Timur a Mongol or a Turk? He is claimed by Turks to have been a Turk and by the Mongols to have been a Mongol. The first thing to consider is that in …

The Turkic peoples are a collection of ethnic groups of Central, East, North and West Asia as well as parts of Europe and North Africa, who speak Turkic languages.. The origins of the Turkic peoples has been a topic of much discussion. Recent linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest Turkic peoples descended from agricultural communities …

19/03/2017 · The Mongols confronted many Turkic peoples who had radically altered their existence since their days on the plains and adopted a stationary way of life. ... The third circle was made up of those peoples Timur had defeated on the battlefield; the second and third rings balanced one another. The outermost bands included Timur’s hereditary ...

TURKS Because no single source had an acceptable Turk history, this is a compilation of material from: The University of Calgary, Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia, and editorial comment. Turkic peoples are any of various peoples whose members speak languages belonging to the Turkic subfamily of the Altaic family of languages.