Identifier: historyofworldsu02helm (find matches)
Title: The history of the world; a survey of a man's record
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Helmolt, Hans F. (Hans Ferdinand), 1865-1929 Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he cityof Sivas, which resisted so long that Timur after taking it desisted for the time fromfurther operations in that quarter. He advanced, instead, against the feebly defendedSyria, the northern ))art of which, including Damascus, fell into his hands. Bagtladalso, where Ahmed ibn Owais had established himself, was captured. The stormthen broke on the heads of the Osnians. In the middle of 1402, the Turkish armywas defeated near Angora by tlie forces of Timur. Sultan Bajazet 1 himself wastaken prisoner, and Asia Minor totally laid waste. Faraj of Egypt, who feared asimilar fate, acknowledged the supremacy of Timur. Thus the lame Tinnir (Tinun-i-leng, Timur-lenk = Tamerlan) had againunited the three chief western )iortions of the Mongol world-eini)ire, Jagatai,Kipchak, and Persia, and widened their frontiers still more (see the niaj), Cen-tral Asia in the Times of Genghis Khan and Timur, p. 174). When he oncemore convened a great council of the realm at Samarkand in the year 1404, he
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The Mosquk of Gru-AMiit in Samarkand, with thk Tomi! ok Timik EXILAXATION OF TlIK VIKWS oX THK FKoXT dF THE PACE Top: The mosque of Gur-Aiiiir at Saiiiarkaiul, cuiitaiiiiii^ the tomb of Timur. The imposing;buiUliii^ with its dome of tiles, which liave preserved their splendid glaze, its lofty facades andbroad gateways, dates from the periotl of the Mongolian contpieror, who made Samarkand hisutpital alx)Ut 140(1. Bnllnin: The tomb of Timur and his relations, under the dome of the mosque of Gur Amir atSamarkand. The black stone with a crack in the middle is the tomb of the conqueror. It is asingle block, hewn out of dark green jade, and of incalculable value. The slab has been brokenacross by some unknown hand. Superstitious Mobaiiiniedans (who consider the si>lintei>i to beinfallible remedies against all internal diseases) and Russian collectors have knocked otf piecesof it. Accoixling to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, the tomb waslilundered by robbers

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