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Alp Arslan

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Alp Arslan , 1029-72, Seljuk sultan of Persia (1063-72). In 1065 he led the Seljuks in an invasion of Armenia and Georgia and in 1066 attacked the Byzantine Empire. The success of his campaign was crowned (1071) by his brilliant victory over Romanus IV at Manzikert . After defeating the Byzantines, he wrested Syria from the Fatimids. In Dec., 1072, while campaigning beyond the Oxus River, he was murdered by one of his captives. He was succeeded by his son Malikshah, who consolidated the victories his father had won. Author not available, ALP ARSLAN. , The Columbia Encyclopedia,... Read more

Alp-Arslan

(born 1030—died November? 1072/January 1073) Second sultan of the Seljuq dynasty , who added Georgia, Armenia, and much of Anatolia to his domains of Khorasan and western Iran. He preferred conquest to governing and left the administration of his empire to his famous vizier, Nizam al-Mulk . In ...

Seljuq dynasty

[or Saljuq dynasty ] ( 11th–13th centuries) Muslim Turkmen dynasty that ruled Persia, Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia. Seljuq was the chief of a nomadic Turkish tribe. His grandsons Chaghri Beg and Toghrïl Beg conquered realms in Iran. Under Alp-Arslan and Malik-Shah, the empire came to ...

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	Turkish travails: though Turkey is now considered a main U.S. ally in the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy is driving a wedge between the countries.(FOREIGN POLICY) ; ...settling in Asia Minor and other areas to the west of their traditional lands sometime in the late first millennium A.D. Alp Arslan, the first great Turkish sultan, defeated the Byzantine Empire at the monumental Battle of Manzikert--the first great... Read more
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