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Abu Sa'id Mirza
Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424–1469) was a Timurid ruler, a great-grandson of Timur, who seized Samarkand in 1451 with the help of the Uzbek khan Abu'l-Khayr and later took Herat, reuniting much of the Timurid realm. In 1469 he invaded western Iran but was defeated and captured by Uzun Hasan of the Aq Qoyunlu and executed. He was the grandfather of Babur.
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