timur-beg

Updated: August 7, 2026

Forster adds, that small pieces of tin were given to the ambassadors, to some twenty-four, and to others as far as seventy pieces; and he says that Witsen left many of the articles enumerated in the original untranslated, as not understanding the terms. Forst. This is the famous Timur-Beg, or Tamerlane the Great. Astl.

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