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9 hours ago · Timur, [b] also known as Tamerlane, [c] often aggrandized by his epithet, the Prince of Destruction, [7] (8 April 1336 [8] – 17–18 February 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty.