Encyclopædia Britannica, "Timur"Arxivləşdirilib 2023-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, Online Academic Edition, 2007. Quotation: "Timur was a member of the Turkicized Barlas tribe, a Mongol subgroup that had settled in Transoxania (now roughly corresponding to Uzbekistan) after taking part in Genghis Khan's son Chagatai's campaigns in that region. Timur thus grew up in what was known as the Chagatai khanate." …
F. Lehmann: Zahir-al-Din Mohammad BaborArxivləşdirilib 2017-11-17 at the Wayback Machine. In Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online Ed. December 1988 (updated August 2011). "BABOR, ZAHIR-AL-DIN MOHAMMAD (6 Mo?arram 886–6 Jomada I 937/14 February 1483–26 December 1530), Timurid prince, military genius, and literary craftsman who escaped the bloody political arena of his Central Asian birthplace to found the Mughal Empire in India. His origin, milieu, training, and education were steeped in Persian culture and so Babor was largely responsible for the fostering of this culture by his descendants, the Mughals of India, and for the expansion of Persian cultural influence in the Indian subcontinent, with brilliant literary, artistic, and historiographical results."
"The Memoirs of Babur"Arxivləşdirilib 2019-10-21 at the Wayback Machine. Silk Road Seattle. University of Washington. Retrieved 2006-11-08. "After being driven out of Samarkand in 1501 by the Uzbek Shaibanids…"
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F. Lehmann: Zahir-al-Din Mohammad BaborArxivləşdirilib 2017-11-17 at the Wayback Machine. In Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online Ed. December 1988 (updated August 2011). "BABOR, ZAHIR-AL-DIN MOHAMMAD (6 Mo?arram 886–6 Jomada I 937/14 February 1483–26 December 1530), Timurid prince, military genius, and literary craftsman who escaped the bloody political arena of his Central Asian birthplace to found the Mughal Empire in India. His origin, milieu, training, and education were steeped in Persian culture and so Babor was largely responsible for the fostering of this culture by his descendants, the Mughals of India, and for the expansion of Persian cultural influence in the Indian subcontinent, with brilliant literary, artistic, and historiographical results."
Encyclopædia Britannica, "Timur"Arxivləşdirilib 2023-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, Online Academic Edition, 2007. Quotation: "Timur was a member of the Turkicized Barlas tribe, a Mongol subgroup that had settled in Transoxania (now roughly corresponding to Uzbekistan) after taking part in Genghis Khan's son Chagatai's campaigns in that region. Timur thus grew up in what was known as the Chagatai khanate." …
"The Memoirs of Babur"Arxivləşdirilib 2019-10-21 at the Wayback Machine. Silk Road Seattle. University of Washington. Retrieved 2006-11-08. "After being driven out of Samarkand in 1501 by the Uzbek Shaibanids…"