Timurid Descendants' Struggle for Supremacy in Central Asia

Name: Timurid Descendants' Struggle for Supremacy in Central Asia
Start: 1490
End: 1499

Type Event Region Central Asia Time 1490–1499

In the 1490s, after the Timurid Empire's collapse, its descendants ruled separately in Transoxiana, Khwarazm, and Fergana;…

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1490–1496Samarkand-Bukhara · UzbekistanTimurid descendants Ali Mirza, Ahmad Mirza, and others held Samarkand and Bukhara, attacking one another; Transoxiana's politics fragmented and central authority existed in name only.
1490–1499Herat · HeratHusayn Bayqara maintained a relatively intact Khwarazm regime at Herat, lacking effective coordination with the Transoxiana princes, forming a dual political-cultural center pattern.
1497–1499Fergana Basin · Central AsiaAfter capturing Samarkand in 1497, Babur quickly lost it, seesawing repeatedly against family members in Fergana; the toll of infighting left the Timurids unable to withstand pressure from the Uzbeks in the north.

The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6: The Timurid and Safavid Periods — Peter Jackson, Lawrence Lockhart (eds.) (1986)
Baburnama — Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur