Tiēmù'ér wǎnnián zhǔnbèi jìngōng Míngcháo, què zài chūzhēng de lùshang bìngsǐ le.
Late in life Timur set out to attack Ming China, but fell ill and died on the way.
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history
From his capital 撒马尔罕 he conquered lands from Delhi to Anatolia, defeated the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I at Ankara in 1402, and brought craftsmen from conquered cities to fill Samarkand with mosques and tombs. His descendant Babur founded the Mughal Empire in India.
usage
帖 is read tiē in his name, not tiě as in 请帖 or tiè as in 字帖. The name renders Temür, 'iron'.
