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Definition of Timur lenk
1. Noun. Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timur Lenk
Literary usage of Timur lenk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Syria and the Holy Land: Their Scenery and Their People. Being Incidents of by Walter Keating Kelly (1844)
"timur lenk carried off with him the ablest artisans, after butchering the rest,
desiring to enrich his capital, Samarcand, *ith all the arts of which he ..."
2. The Romance of Travel: Comprising Adventures in Foreign Countries, and (1857)
"They still show, new one of the gates, the spot on which stood a pyramid of heads,
the horrible monument of the victor's ferocity. timur lenk carried off ..."
3. Handbook of Mediaeval Geography and History by Wilhelm Pütz, Robert Bateman Paul (1850)
"The Mongols became again a formidable power under 303 timur lenk, or Tamerlane,
a descendant of Dschingis ..."
4. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1837)
"... lorsque je fus forcé de fuir, « pour échapper aux armes de Timur-lenk , et je
... nous ap- « prîmes que les soldats de Timur-lenk avaient évacué Aintab. ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"In this war Timur received a wound «'{''„, in consequence of which he became
lame- he was called Timur-lenk, or the lame Timor.» been corrupted by Europeans ..."
6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"... tits he was called Timur-lenk, or the lame Timur, which to been corrupted by
Europeans into Tamerlane, ..."
7. Faiths of Man: A Cyclopædia of Religions by James George Roche Forlong (1906)
"He was employed under the Mongol emperor, and was called in Persia
Timur-lenk (Tamerlane, or " Timur the lame ") having been lamed by a wound in
the foot. ..."
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