Timur's Military Alliance

Timeline

1. 1361–1365Kesh · TransoxianaTimur, of Barlas tribal nobility, allied kinsmen and vassal groups amid Chagatai khans' rivalries, consolidating loyalty through military victory and spoils distribution. In its early phase the alliance was held together by tribal chieftain councils and military leaders' authority, without a fixed bureaucratic apparatus.
2. 1366–1370Samarkand · SamarkandAs governor of Khurasan, Timur defeated remnants of local Sufi dynasties and absorbed more Turkic tribes and surrendered forces into the alliance. The military alliance began to manage oasis-town taxation and caravan route protection, its power structure transitioning from a purely tribal union to a fusion of military and civil authority.