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{{short description|Timur's conquest of the city of Balkh (1370)}}

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The siege of Balkh was a key success in Timur's rise to power, and established him as the ruler of the western Chagatai Khanate in Transoxiana.{{Timur's conquests}}

References

• The Timurid Dynasty {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702182557weblink |date=2013-07-02 }}
• René Grousset, L'empire des Steppes, versio francesa 1938 reedició 4ª 1965, i versió anglesa 1970. {{ISBN|0-8135-1304-9}}
• Hodong Kim, "The Early History of the Moghul Nomads: The Legacy of the Chaghatai Khanate." The Mongol Empire and Its Legacy. Ed. Reuven Amitai-Preiss i David Morgan. Leiden: Brill, 1998. {{ISBN|90-04-11048-8}}
• Beatrice Forbes Manz, The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1989. {{ISBN|0-521-63384-2}}
• Mirza Muhammad Haidar. The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia). Traduit per Edward Denison Ross, editat per N. Elias. Londres, 1895.

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