Timur participated in the Siege of Smyrna.
 From these conquests, he founded the Timurid Empire, but this empire fragmented shortly after his death
 'Iron'; 9 April 1336  1719 February 1405), later Timr Gurkn (Chagatay:   Temr Kregen), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty

