Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1369
Timur seizes Samarkand
April 1369
The Barlas chief, having outmaneuvered his brother-in-law Husayn at every turn, took the great trade city as his capital. He would adorn it with mosques, observatories, and tile work imported from a half-dozen conquered civilizations, creating a showcase of imperial power and artistic synthesis. Samarkand was about to become the most splendid city in fourteenth-century Asia.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.