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Sultan Alp Arslan "Heroic Lion" was born 20 January 1029 A.D. Alp Arslan was the second Sultan of the Seljuk Empire. Alp Arslan was the son of Chaghri and nephew of Tughril, founding fathers of the Seljuk Empire. During his reign, Alp Arslan was assisted by his remarkable vizier Nizam-ul-Mulk, one of the finest statesman and administrator in the Muslim History who wrote the book Siyasatnama (Book of Government). Sultan Alp Arslan's decisive victory against the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert in 1071 earned him the title of "Lion of Manzikert". Sultan Alp Arslan defetaed Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes of the Byzantine Empire who was personally commanding the much larger Byzantine army. During the battle Sultan Alp Arslan captured, forgave and set free Emperor Romanos with presents and military guard. Alp Arslan's efforts opened the way into Anatolia for the Seljuk Empire. It also marks the beginning of the end of Byzantine Empire in Anatolia. Sultan Alp Arslan reigned over the Seljuk Empire from 1063-1072 A.D. Sultan Alp Arslan was assassinated in 1072 and is buried in Merv. #alparslan #sultanalparslan #arslan #seljuk #seljuks #seljukempire #seljuksultanate #turk #anatolia #manzikert #malazgirt #malazgirt1071 #nizamülmülk #nizamulmulk #siyasatnama #byzantine #byzantinempire #history #historia https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRmKaGDJrt/?igshid=1x7r03g28vifn

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Vol 4 Ep 4 - The Great Seljuk Empire #türk #oghuz #seljuk #manzikert #middleages #medieval #middleeast #islam #history #turkey https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9VYkdIe_O/?utm_medium=tumblr

[espadaymagia]

Un día como hoy 26 de Agosto pero de 1071...

Fue la fecha de la Batalla de Manzikert: los turcos selyúcidas derrotan absolutamente a las tropas bizantinas del basileus Romano IV Diogenes.

Mas Información aquí.

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Türk, ulu Tanrı’nın soylu gözdesi,  Malazgirt, Bizans’ın Türk’e secdesi,  Bu ses insanlığa Hakkın müjdesi  Ya Allah! Bismillah! Allahu Ekber! 

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Battle of Manzikert 1071 - Simple explanation

Seljuks

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  Pottery from Iran (about 1100 AD)

  The Seljuks were Turkic nomads from Turkmenistan, related to the Uighurs, who entered the Abbasid empire around 950 AD and gradually converted to Sunni Islam. By 1030 they were beginning to try to get power for themselves, and they soon conquered the Ghaznavids (wwho were also Turkic) and controlled most of Persia (modern Iran). Their capital was at Isfahan. Like the Ghaznavids, the Seljuks spoke Persian and encouraged Persian culture.

By 1055, the Seljuk king Togrul Beg had conquered Iraq too, and although there was still an Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, the caliph pretty much had to do whatever the Seljuk sultan Togrul Beg wanted him to do. When Togrul Beg died in 1063, he was succeeded by his nephew Alp Arslan (Alp Arslan means "the hero lion" in Turkish, and it's where C.S. Lewis got the name of Aslan for the Narnia books).

In the west, Alp Arslan fought to take Syria from the Fatimids and Armenia from the Byzantine empire. In 1070, the Byzantine emperor Romanus IV Diogenes decided to try to push the Seljuks out of Armenia. At first the Byzantines (with some Norman allies) won. Then there was a great battle at Manzikert in 1071, just east of the Euphrates river, but the Byzantines lost. The Seljuks not only won the battle, they also captured the Byzantine emperor Diogenes! In the end, Alp Arslan let Diogenes go in exchange for a lot of gold and the promise that he could have Armenia and a lot of other Byzantine land too. Then they were at peace. Alp Arslan died the next year and his son Malik Shah became sultan. But after Malik Shah died in 1092, the Seljuks got less powerful, and by 1192 their dynasty ended. The Seljuk empire broke up into many small kingdoms.

  A Seljuk fort near Istanbul at Alanya, built in 1226 AD

When the Mongol invasions came to West Asia, the Byzantines and the Seljuks fought together against the Mongols. But they lost, and in 1243 the Mongols took over both Iran and Anatolia (modern Turkey).

After the Mongol Empire collapsed, however, it was one of these Seljuk kings, Osman, who founded the new Ottoman Empire.

Ottomans  Main Islamic history page  Main Islam page

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15th-century French miniature depicting the Battle of Manzikert, the combatants are clad in contemporary Western European armour The Battle of Manzikert was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuq Turks on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes played an important role in undermining Byzantine authority in Anatolia and Armenia, and allowed for the gradual Turkification of Anatolia.