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The opera is in three acts and is loosely based on the historic conflict between Bajazet, a Turkish sultan, and the Tartar conqueror Timur, or Tamerlano, who ruled much of western and central Asia in the 14th century.

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Despite this zeal for destruction, Justin Marozzi finds a surprising amount of good to say about the Central Asian conqueror usually known in the West as Tamerlane or Tamburlaine, a corruption of Temur-i-lang, or Temur the Lame not a name that anyone, surely, would have dared use to his face.

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