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Seljuq, the ruling military family of the Oguz (Oghuz, or Ghuzz) Turkic tribes that invaded southwestern Asia in the 11th century and eventually founded an empire that included Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and most of Iran. Their advance marked the beginning of Turkic power in the Middle East.
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The Seljuk Empire was founded in 1037 by Tughril (990–1063) and his brother Chaghri (989–1060), both of whom co-ruled over its territories; there are indications that the Seljuk leadership otherwise functioned as a triumvirate and thus included Musa Yabghu, the uncle of the aforementioned two.
- 3,900,000 km² (1,500,000 sq mi)
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Period: High Middle Ages (1000-1250 AD) Languages: Persian, Oghuz Turkic, Arabic First Sultan: Toghrul I Last Sultan: Toghrul III Religion: Sunni Muslim Founders: Tughril and Chagri Area: 3,850,000 km2(1,480,000 sq m)
In the 10th century, a warlord from the Oghuz Turkic tribes known as Seljuk established the Seljuq dynasty. Seljuk is believed to have hailed from the Qiniq tribe, one of the numerous tribes that made up Oghuz Turkic people. That same century, the descendants of Seljuk migrated to Khwarezm (Chorasmia) in western Cenral Asia, where many of them beca...
The rulers of the Seljuk dynasty were known as the Great Seljuk. The first ruler of the Seljuk Empire was Tughril (c. 993-1063), who was born Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika’il. Tughril is regarded as the founder of the Seljuk Empire. Tughril, who co-ruled with his brother Chagri, was a powerful military leader who brought many Turkmen warriors...
After Tughril’s death in 1063, his nephew Alp Arslan (son of Tughril’s brother Chaghri Beg) succeeded him to the throne. Alp Arslan continued in the footsteps of his father and uncle by expanding the boundaries of the Seljuk Empire into Armenia and Georgia in 1064. In the latter part of the 1060s, Arslan conquered the remaining part of Anatolia. In...
Sultan Malik-Shah I (8 August 1055 – 19 November 1092) is credited with ushering in the golden age of Great Seljuk, a period that saw tremendous growth in the social and economic fortunes of the Seljuk Empire, as well territorial gains. Such was Malik-Shah I’s fame that the Abbasid Caliph described him as “The Sultan of the East and West” in 1087. ...
The Seljuk Empire had its first major internal strife following the death of Sultan Malik-Shah I in 1092. In Anatolia, Kilij Arslan I succeeded the Sultan. In Syria, Malik’s brother Tutush I became sultan, and in Persia, his son Mahmud I took the reins of power. However, Mahmud I’s claim to the throne was contested by three other children of Malik ...
After the death of Sultan Ahmad Sanjar (ruler of Khorasan – 1097-1118; Seljuk Emperor – 1118-1157), bigger divisions and fractures appeared in the Seljuk Empire. During the reign of Sultan Togrul III (reign – 1176 to 1194), the Abbasid caliph an-Nasir formed an alliance with the Khwarezmshah Takash. The Seljuk sultan suffered a humiliated defeat at...
As the Seljuk Empire increased in size, Sultan Alp Arslan and his viziers came up with a governance system of Atabek/Atabey/Atabeg (i.e. governor) to steer the affair of the various principalities in the empire. The gains made by the Seljuk Empire in eastern Anatolia likely triggered the First Crusade (1095-1099). Examples of rulers to hold the tit...
The Seljuk empire was not a centralized state but rather a group of semi-independent kingdoms ruled by members of the same extended family. The Seljuk empire had few formal political institutions.
views 1,357,297 updated. SELJUKS (Arab. Saljūq ), dynasty of Turkic origin which ruled *Iran and the surrounding countries in the 11 th and 12 th centuries. The conquest of much of the Middle East by the Seljuks, who founded an empire extending from Central Asia to the Mediterranean, influenced inter alia the situation of its Jewish subjects.
The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids (/ ˈ s ɛ l dʒ ʊ k / SEL-juuk; Persian: سلجوقیان Saljuqian, alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs), Seljuqs, also known as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans or the Saljuqids, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture in West Asia and Central Asia.
Seljuk, also spelled Seljuq, ruling military family of the Oğuz (Ghuzz) Turkic tribes that invaded southwestern Asia in the 11th century and eventually founded an empire that included Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and most of Iran.
