Tamer lane

(tăm-ŭr-lān',) or TIMOUR, surnamed THE GREAT, an Asiatic conqueror, B. of Mongol race, at Kesh in Independent Tartary, 1336. After subjecting to his arms Khorasan, Armenia, and the greater part of Persia, he defeated the Bashkirs, took Bagdad and Damascus, subjugated Georgia, and advanced into Ru ia as far as Moscow. In 1398, he invaded India, where he defeated the army of the Grand Mogul near Delhi. After gaining, in 1402, a decisive and sanguinary battle in Angora, over the Ottoman Turks commanded by their Sultan Bajazet, T. died on his march towards China, which country he next intended to invade, 1405. [s. 877]