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Timur
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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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Death DateWikipedia'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). Sources
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