Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · War
1383
Tamerlane conquers eastern Persia
1383
Timur's armies swept through Sistan and Kerman, reducing ancient Persian cities to tributary status. Artisans were deported to Samarkand, irrigation works destroyed, towers of skulls erected at city gates as warnings to any who might resist. Persia's eastern provinces entered a generation of devastation from which some regions would not recover for centuries.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.