Amur Timur Biography

Amir Temur was born in the village of Khoja Ilgar, near Kesha modern Shakhrisabz on April 8 in the family of a noble emir. Muhammad Taragai, Temur's father was from the aristocratic family of the Barlasov family and enjoyed great popularity and authority in Maverannahr. The childhood and adolescence of the future ruler, the commander passed in the vicinity of his hometown. From a young age, Temur loved competitions, hunting and military games.

He perfectly wielded a spear and firing from onions. From the age of ten, the mentors - the atabeks who served at the court of the father diligently raised a warrior from him, without paying due attention to the education of the boy. And only the natural curiosity of Temur allowed him, being almost illiterate, to learn the Qur'an by heart. Since childhood, I was unusually possessed by the organizational abilities of Temur did not differ in special obedience and, in his youth, putting a small gang of raids stole her flocks of rams from the tribes of nomads.

However, due to permanent feuds destroying the country, the young man seriously began to think about politics. Later, together with his detachment, Temur enters his uncle, ruler Kesh - Khoja Barlas. At the end of the XIII, beginning of the XIV century, the economic situation of Maverannahra inspired serious concerns, the Mongolian Khan Timur took advantage of this, who easily won most of the Maverannahra reached the Kashkadarya in the year.

Temur Taragai enters his service. However, after the khan appoints the ruler of his son, he terminates his obligations.

For some time, Timurbek lives on the right bank of the Amu Darya River, waging a partisan war with the Mongols. In one of these sorties, Temur was seriously wounded in his hand and leg, after which he turned out to be a lame for life, for which he received the nickname Temur-Elang Lame Temur. Having achieved serious success in the year in the universal Kurultai of the Assembly of the Mongol Empire in Balkh was proclaimed the ruler, but not being a direct heir to the tsarist throne, he refused the throne and took the pathos title of Amir.

Formally, not being crowned, in fact, he was now the sovereign ruler of Maverannahra. Now the main task of Amir Temur was the unification of all scattered territories into a single whole. Around the support of the local clergy and feudal lords, Tamerlan made 9 military campaigns in the country. A strong state was created, and it was decided to elect the Samarkand to the capital of Samarkand.

A new city was laid next to the destroyed Afrosiab, they began to strengthen it with quotels and fortress walls, decorate with palaces, mosques and madrassas. Amir Temur successfully united Maverannahr and joined Ferghana and the Shash oasis to the existing territories. Amir Temur ruled the state for thirty -five years. Over the years, he undertook a lot of military campaigns, won victories in the largest battles, conquered a lot of country to create a huge empire, the borders of which extended from China and India to the Caspian Sea, from Aral to the Persian Gulf.

The great commander died during a military campaign against China, this happened in February in the city of Otrara. His body was embalmed, put in a coffin with black brocade and sent to Samarkand, where he rested in the family tomb of Gur-Emir. The inheritance of the descendants of Temur left not only a huge power, but also a guide to action in the management of the country.

It consists of two parts, the first is autobiographical, a description of the acts of the Great Amir, and the second is a set of laws in which the rules of behavior of members of the company, their rights and obligations are clearly spelled out. These laws resolutely concerned all in the state from ordinary citizens, to officials and rulers.