Significant1037 – 1194 · 157 years

Wars of the Seljuk Empire

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Iran · Iraq · Afghanistan · Turkmenistan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Seljuk conquest of Persia and the Middle East and the later wars of the Great Seljuk sultans.

Belligerents6

Seljuks
Seljuk Turks
Seljuk Sultanate
Abbasid Caliphate
Oghuz Turks
Seljuk Sultanate of Khorasan

ON THE MAPGreat Seljuk EmpireAbbasid Caliphate

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 10

Battle of Nishapur1037
Battle of Dandanaqan1040
Battle of Hasankale1048
Battle of Tarq1051
Battle of Baghdad1055
Battle of Rayy1059
Battle of Kufah1060
Battle of Samarkand1141
Battle of Balkh1153
Battle of Shahr Rey1194

Sources

Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Wars of the Seljuk Empire (1037 – 1194). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/seljuk-empire-wars · Sources & methodology