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Tamerlane: The Conqueror Who Tried to Rebuild the Mongol Legacy — Fexingo History

Few conquerors have left as contradictory a legacy as Timur, known to the West as Tamerlane. Born in the 1330s near Samarkand, he rose from a minor chieftain to forge an empire that stretched from…

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