Timur emerges in Transoxiana

1363

A Barlas chieftain near Kesh, lamed by an arrow in earlier raids, joined the service of the Chagatayid khan Tughlugh Temur and learned the politics of steppe diplomacy. Within seven years Timur would seize Samarkand, kill his brother-in-law, and begin three decades of campaigns that would reach Damascus, Delhi, and the gates of Beijing.