xxxv, 213, Rutgers University Press Saunders, J.J., The History of the Mongol Conquests, 1970, p. 52, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. Öngöt Mezar Külliyesi
2007. Quotation: Timur was a member of the Turkicized Barlas tribe, a Mongol subgroup that had settled in Transoxania (now roughly corresponding to Özbekistan)