| Retailers of the legend seem stupefied by Tamerlane, never knowing whether to praise him for his military prowess or shudder at his ferocity. |
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| It was completely devastated by Turkmen tribes, the hordes of Tamerlane, and the Persian Safavids. |
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| He was Tamerlane himself, prince of the Sidhe, and a more tender, more noble being she'd never known. |
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| Timur, or Tamerlane, modelled himself on Genghiz Khan, and miniatures on the wall depict his ferocious onslaught on Baghdad. |
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| Prince Bayasanghor, who commissioned the work, was the grandson of Timur, known to Western history and literature as Tamerlane. |
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| Tamerlane defeats the Ottoman Turks, and causes the deaths of seventeen million people. |
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| Despite the towers of skeletons, Tamerlane described himself as a peaceful man. |
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| Some 150 itineraries have already been established, including the Alexander the Great, the Marco Polo and the Tamerlane routes. |
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| Amir Temur, also known as Tamerlane, was a Central Asian ruler and warlord who lived in the 14th and 15th centuries. |
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| Although Tamerlane died six centuries ago, his legacy still carries enormous weight throughout Central Asia. |
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| When the Tartars invaded Syria, he went to Damascus with the sultan, where he had the chance to meet Tamerlane, who was besieging the city. |
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| He also had the occasion to meet with Ibn Khaldun, when the sage of al-Andalus tried to mediate in order to prevent Tamerlane from razing Damascus. |
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| This was mainly destructive, though not entirely so: The conquests of soldier-statesmen like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Tamerlane helped to spread learning, art and public works through Europe, Africa and Asia. |
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| He said that the Parthians, present on the day of Pentecost, first brought the gospel to Central Asia. where there was a strong church until it was decimated by Tamerlane in the 15th Century. |
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| The exploits of Alexander, Marco Polo, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane bear witness to the sporadic, but intense, interactions between these two populations. |
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| Tamerlane established a major empire in the Middle East and Central Asia, in order to revive the Mongol Empire. |
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| The Jianwen or Tamerlane factors are absent from contemporary historical sources, thus they lack the support and conformation to be accepted. |
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| Another unlikely theory explained that the voyages were triggered in response to another power across Asia, namely the Timurid state of Tamerlane, an enemy of Ming China. |
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