Babur
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#Turkic_rulers
Babur （Persian: بابر‎, romanized: Bābur, lit. 'tiger'; 14 February 1483 – 26 December 1530）, born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad, was the founder of the Mughal Empire and first Emperor of the Mughal dynasty （r. 1526–1530） in the Indian subcontinent.
He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his father and mother respectively.
He was also given the posthumous name of Firdaws Makani （'Dwelling in Paradise'）.
Of Chagatai Turkic origin and born in Andijan in the Fergana Valley （in present-day Uzbekistan）, Babur was the eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza （1456–1494, governor of Fergana from 1469 to 1494） and a great-great grandson of Timur （1336–1405）.
Babur ascended the throne of Fergana in its capital Akhsikent in 1494 at the age of twelve and faced rebellion.
He conquered Samarkand two years later, only to lose Fergana soon after.
In his attempt to reconquer Fergana, he lost control of Samarkand.
In 1501 his attempt to recapture both the regions failed when Muhammad Shaybani Khan defeated him.
In 1504 he conquered Kabul, which was under the putative rule of Abdur Razaq Mirza, the infant heir of Ulugh Beg II. Babur formed a partnership with the Safavid ruler Ismail I and reconquered parts of Turkistan,
including Samarkand, only to again lose it and the other newly conquered lands to the Sheybanids.
After losing Samarkand for the third time, Babur turned his attention to India and employed aid from the neighbouring Safavid and Ottoman empires Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi,
Sultan of Delhi, at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 CE and founded the Mughal Empire.
At the time, the sultanate at Delhi was a spent force that was long crumbling.
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