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He was the son of a tribal leader, and he claimed (apparently for the first time in 1370) to be a descendant of Jenghiz Khan . With an army composed of Turks and Turkic-speaking Mongols, remnants of the empire of the Mongols , Timur spent his early military career in subduing his rivals in what is now Turkistan ; by 1369 he firmly controlled the entire area from his capital at Samarkand ...

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