Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1399
Timur returns to Samarkand after Indian campaign
1399
The Tamerlane rode back from Delhi with eighty captured elephants and convoys of skilled Indian artisans, including stonemasons who would labor on the Bibi-Khanym mosque, the largest in the Islamic world. His Indian loot funded the most ambitious building program in Central Asian history. Samarkand glittered while northern India starved.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.