Seljuk (warlord)
Seljuk (Turkish: Selçuk, Arabic السلاجقة Saljūq; also Seldjuk, Seldjuq, Seljuq) was the bey (chieftain) of a branch of Oghuz Turks known as the Kýnýk Seljuqs. He founded the Seljuq dynasty around year 1000.
Tradition says Seljuk had four sons: Mikail, Junus, Musa and Arslan. Seljuk's grandson Toghrül, son of Mikail conquered Persia (Iran) in the mid-11th century.
According to some sources, Seljuk began his career as an officer in the Khazar army.[1]
The Seljuqs expanded from Aegean Sea to Central Asia and the Caucassus. Under Alp Arslan they took over the control of the Islamic world from the Abbasids. In the year 1071 Sultan Alp Arslan defeated the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes and the Seljuqs began to conquer Anatolia.
Notes
- ^ Rice, Tamara Talbot. The Seljuks in Asia Minor. Thames and Hudson, London, 1961. pp.18-19.
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