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Timur, also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia.

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1405-02-17 1
Wikipedia's infobox gives his death as 17 or 18 February 1405; this uses the earlier date. His birth is given only as the decade 1320s with no single year, so no birth fact is recorded here (gap for the depth wave).
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was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty
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17/18 February 1405
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