Kart dynasty (Timurid Empire)

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Was one of the many polities that emerged from the fragmentation of the Ilkhanate. It controlled the region of Khorasan in Iran. Ghiyas-uddin Pir 'Ali was became a vassal of Timur in 1381.

Establishment

May 1381: Kart ruler Ghiyas-uddin Pir 'Ali was made Timur's vassal.

Chronology

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1. Timurid invasions

Military campaigns of Timur (or Tamerlane), a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia.

January 1382: Tamerlan ruled over much of Persian Khorasan by 1381.

January 1397: Timur supported a rebellion in 1382 by the maliks of Herat. Ghiyas-uddin Pir 'Ali and his family were executed around 1383, and Timur's son Miran Shah destroyed the revolt. That same year, a new uprising led by a Shaikh Da'ud-i Khitatai in Isfizar was quickly put down by Miran Shah. The remaining Karts were murdered in 1396 at a banquet by Miran Shah. The Karts therefore came to an end.

1.1.Tokhtamysh-Timur war

Was a war between the Golden Horde and the Timurid Empire.

January 1384: After the death of Abu Sa'id in 1335, the last ruler of the Ilkhanid Dynasty, a power vacuum emerged in Persia. Persia's vulnerability led to military incursions from Persia's neighbours. In 1383 Timur started his military conquest of that country. In 1385 he captured Herat, Khorasan and all of eastern Persia.