Editing Iran (section)

===Timur and the Rise of New Powers===
Iran remained divided until the arrival of [[Timur]], a [[Turco-Mongol tradition|Turco-Mongol]]<ref>Peter B. Golden ''Central Asia in World History (New Oxford World History)'' (Oxford University Press, 2011), page 94: "He was born some 100 km (62 miles) south of Samarkand into a clan of the Barlas, a Turkicized tribe of Mongol descent."</ref> belonging to the [[Timurid dynasty]]. Like its predecessors, the [[Timurid Empire]] was also part of the Persianate world. After establishing a power base in Transoxiana, Timur invaded Iran in 1381 and eventually conquered most of it. Timur's campaigns were known for their brutality; many people were slaughtered and several cities were destroyed.<ref name="lcweb2.loc.gov">This section incorporates text from the public domain [[Library of Congress Country Studies]].<br />{{Citation
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080917085548/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+ir0018)
| title= Iran: a country study
| chapter =Invasions of the Mongols and Tamerlane 
| series= Library of Congress Country Studies 
|archive-date=17 September 2008
| year = 1989
| first = Helen | last = Chapin Metz
| url = https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/frd/frdcstdy/ir/irancountrystudy00curt_0/irancountrystudy00curt_0_djvu.txt
| url-status= unfit 
}}</ref>
 
His successors, the Timurids, maintained a hold on most of Iran until 1452, when they lost the bulk of it to [[Black Sheep Turkmen]]. The Black Sheep Turkmen were conquered by the [[White Sheep Turkmen]] under [[Uzun Hasan]] in 1468; Uzun Hasan and his successors were the masters of Iran until the rise of the Safavids.<ref name="lcweb2.loc.gov"/>