Babur mughal emperor biography of albert

Mughal emperor from 1526 to 1530

This article is about the first Mughal Emperor. For the male given name, see Babar. For the amphipod crustacean, see Babr.

Babur children

For other uses, see Babur (disambiguation).

Babur (Persian:[bɑː.βuɾ]; 14 February 1483 – 26 December 1530; born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad) was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent.

He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his father and mother respectively.^[4][5][6] He was also given the posthumous name of Firdaws Makani ('Dwelling in Paradise').^[7]

Born in Andijan in the Fergana Valley (now in Uzbekistan), Babur was the eldest son of Umar Shaikh Mirza II (1456–1494, governor of Fergana from 1469 to 1494) and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur (1336–1405).

Babur ascended the throne of Fergana in its capital Akhsikath in 1494 at the age of twelve and faced rebellion. He conquered Samarkand two years later, only to lo