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The Sack of Damascus.(career of the warlord Timur the Lame)(Brief Article)

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From: History Today
Date: 20010301
Author:Cavendish, Richard

March 24th, 1401

THE CENTRAL CHARACTER of Christopher Marlowe's bloodthirsty and hugely popular drama Tamburlaine the Great, in which the fall of Damascus is a major episode, was the savage Turkic warlord the Persians called Timur Lenk (Timur the Lame), which in English became Tamburlaine or Tamerlane. One of history's more notorious psychopaths, Timur began his career as a bandit in what is now Uzbekistan. By his thirties he had made himself ruler of the Chagatai Khanate with his capital at Samarkand. Ruthless, cunning, vengeful and cruel, he announced himself the restorer ...

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