jan 1, 1400 - Timul-lenk (Tamerlane) invades Armenia.

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In 1400, Timur invaded Armenia and Georgia. His campaign brought devastation and and death on a scale hitherto unknown. Of the surviving population, more than 60,000 of the local people were captured as slaves, and many districts were depopulated. Yet, neither Timur (who died in 1405) nor his successors could be said to have ruled Armenia or what have left of it; power lay rather with two Turkoman dynasties, the "White Rams" (Ak-Koyunlu), based at Diyarbekir, and the "Black Rams" (Kara-Koyunlu), based at Van. Both dynasties emerged as sovereign in 1378 but eventually their day was also spent; Black Rams were vanquished by Uzun ("Tall") Hassan of the White Rams in 1469 and the White Rams were themselves extuinguished by the new, dynastic power of Safavid Persia, when they confronted Shah Ismail in battle Sharur, Armenia in 1502.

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