Under Alp Arslan's successor, Malik Shah, and his two Persian viziers,[31] Nizām al-Mulk and Tāj al-Mulk, the Seljuq state expanded in various directions, to the former Iranian border of the days before the Arab invasion, so that it soon bordered China in the east and the Byzantines in the west. Seljuk, at its start, is a Sunni Turkmeni autocratic monarchy located in the Central Asia region of the Tartary subcontinent and the Khorasan region of the Persia subcontinent, all in the Asia continent. 'House of Saljuq') or the Seljuk Empire[11][note 1] was a high medieval Turko-Persian[14] Sunni Muslim empire, originating from the Qiniq branch of Oghuz Turks. 527 - Justinian I becomes Emperor of Byzantium. The Seljuks eventually created a Turkish empire from Central Asia to the Byzantine empire in Asia Minor.

After the assassination of Ali, a group called the Umayyads came to power and chose Mu’awiya as the fifth caliph.  suzerainty of the Abbasids, ♦ The Seljuk king Alp Arslan moves the capital to Ray (Tehran), ♦ The Seljuqs led by sultan Alp Arslan defeat the Byzantine army at the 69 (start) In 1076 Malik Shah I surged into Georgia and reduced many settlements to ruins.

After pillaging the County of Edessa, Seljuqid commander Ilghazi made peace with the Crusaders. However, Sanjar's army was decisively defeated by the host of Yelu Dashi at the Battle of Qatwan on September 9, 1141. Ala' al-Din Kai-Qubad I had some passages from the Shahname inscribed on the walls of Konya and Sivas. As the dynasty declined in the middle of the thirteenth century, the Mongols invaded Anatolia in the 1260s and divided it into small emirates called the Anatolian beyliks. The Seljuk Turks were the first people to invade Anatolia completely. These were the vassals of Great Seljuk Empire. Beginning of the Abbasid-Seljuk empire The Abbasid dynasty depended on regional governors for military control and the collection of taxes. During the First Crusade, the fractured states of the Seljuqs were generally more concerned with consolidating their own territories and gaining control of their neighbours than with cooperating against the crusaders. Prof Dr. Ali Sevim - Prof Dr. Yaşar Yücel: "The Saliūq Campaign against the Crimea and the Expansionist Policy of the Early Reign of'Alā' al-Dīn Kayqubād", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_Seljuk_Sultanate_of_Rum&oldid=980402285, Short description with empty Wikidata description, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Although the Mongols would eventually convert to Islam and foster their own cultural achievements, the Golden Age of the Abbasid-Seljuq dynasty had come to a close. The Seljuqs were allied with the Persian Samanid shahs against the Qarakhanids. 537 - The Hagia Sophia Cathedral is completed.

The timeline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum (1077–1307) is summarized below.[1][2]. The Seljuqs had already lost Palestine to the Fatimids, who had recaptured it just before its capture by the crusaders. British Museum.

However, after Malikshah died in 1092, internal Turkish conflicts fragmented the Seljuq Empire. Their advance marked the beginning of Turkish power in the Middle East. Initially the Seljuqs were repulsed by Mahmud and retired to Khwarezm, but Tughril and Chaghri led them to capture Merv and Nishapur (1037). The Umayyads had been based in Syria and were influenced by its Byzantine architecture and administration. from 1079/80 onward, Georgia was pressured into submitting to Malik-Shah to ensure a precious degree of peace at the price of an annual tribute.

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From their homelands near the Aral Sea, the Seljuks advanced first into Khorasan and then into mainland Persia, before eventually capturing Baghdad and conquering eastern Anatolia.  central Anatolia with capital in Iznik (Nicaea), ♦ The Seljuks move the capital from Ray (Tehran) to Isfahan but Alp The Arab chronicler Ibn al-Athir reports that Ibrahim brought back 100,000 captives and a vast booty loaded on the backs of ten thousand camels. On other fronts, the Kingdom of Georgia began to become a regional power and extended its borders at the expense of Great Seljuk. The Seljuks eventually created a Turkish empire from Central Asia to the Byzantine empire in Asia Minor. Umayyad dominance in the east was challenged by a rising faction, the Abbasids, who joined others opposing the empire’s secular emphasis. By the 11th century, this decentralized system proved too weak to defend against nomadic tribesmen from the east. +10.0% Morale of Armies +10.0% Cavalry Combat Ability Britannica Quiz. These challenges to Christian rule led the pope to call the first crusade in 1096.

The battle was a resounding victory for the Seljuks,Within a few years there were Turkish tribes in many parts of Anatolia but the Seljuks were now the main power in this borderland between Islam and Christianity. When Ahmad Sanjar died in 1157, this fractured the empire even further and rendered the atabegs effectively independent.

Turkish Tribes +1.00 Yearly Army Tradition. Tughril was the grandson of Seljuq and brother of Chaghri, under whom the Seljuks wrested an empire from the Ghaznavids. List of sultans of the Seljuq Empire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of sultans of the Seljuq Empire (1037–1194). P.M. Holt; Ann K.S. Seljuk The 9th and 10th centuries under Abbasid rule were a golden age of Muslim achievement. He fled westward, finally making it to his family’s distant territory in Spain, where he established a western Umayyad dynasty that lasted another three hundred years. For a list of rulers of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, see List of Seljuk sultans of Rûm.

Alp Arslan authorized his Turkmen generals to carve their own principalities out of formerly Byzantine Anatolia, as atabegs loyal to him. Unfortunately, the creativity that had flowed from Baghdad for four centuries came to a crashing halt in 1258, when the Mongol invasion reached Mesopotamia. Mu’awiya moved his capital to Damascus in 661 and began to reform the new empire’s administration. The Kara-Khanids turned to their overlord the Seljuqs for assistance, to which Sanjar responded by personally leading an army against the Kara-Khitai. At Mosul, Zengi succeeded Kerbogha as atabeg and successfully began the process of consolidating the atabegs of Syria. In 1073 the Seljuk Amirs of Ganja, Dvin and Dmanisi, invaded Georgia and were defeated by George II of Georgia, who successfully took the fortress of Kars. By 1100 Seljuq power was finished. A. Linea del tiempo, el concepto de la infancia a lo largo de la historia . Hussein, as the prophet Mohammed’s grandson, represented a symbolic link to the prophet and the fourth caliph, whom Mu’awiya had overthrown.  Seljuks power in Central Asia, ♦ The Khwarazmis (Turkish mercenaries) conquer Persia from the Seljuks, ♦ Saladin Ayubbid, a Kurdish general, ends the Fatimid dynasty in Egypt

Tughril Beg conquered Persia (1040–44) and Iraq (1055). The Great Seljuk Sultanate was based in Iran, Iraq, and central Asia from between about 1040–1157. Basic Data