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The Barlas Clan: Tamerlane's Rise from Nomadic Roots
Before he became the Sahib-i Qiran, the Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction, Tamerlane was just a young nomad from the Barlas clan, a minor Mongol tribe in the Chagatai ulus. This episode explores his early life in the village of Kesh, near Samarkand, his family's claim of descent from Qarachar Nayan, a commander under Chinggis Khan, and the brutal steppe politics of 14th-century Central Asia. We delve into his tribal alliances, his wounding at the hands of the Sistan shepherds that earned him the name Timur-i Lang (Timur the Lame), and how he rose from a local chieftain to the ruler of…
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