Great Seljuk Empire

Overview

The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval Turkic, culturally Persianate empire established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. The empire spanned a total area of 3.9 million square kilometres from Anatolia and the Levant in the west to the Hindu Kush in the east, and from Central Asia in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, and it spanned the time period 1037–1308, though Seljuk rule beyond the Anatolian peninsula ended in 1194.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1100:Seljuk Empire
• SNAPSHOT1100
• MATCHEDSeljuk Empire
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire20

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• First Crusade1096–99
  World-changing · 100K dead
• Seljuk-Byzantine Wars1064–1308
  Major conflict · 400K dead
• Seljuk Invasions of Anatolia1064–98
  Major conflict · 200K dead
• Battle of Manzikert1071
  Major conflict · 100K dead
• Armenian Cilician Kingdom Wars1080–1375
  Significant · 200K dead
• Second Crusade1147–49
  Significant · 100K dead
• Wars of the Seljuk Empire1037–1194
  Significant
• Eastern Islamic dynastic wars (990–1120)990 CE–1120
  Regional
• Battle of Nishapur1037
  Regional
• Battle of Dandanaqan1040
  Regional
• Battle of Hasankale1048
  Regional
• Battle of Baghdad1055
  Regional
• Battle of Kufah1060
  Regional
• Battle of Sebastia1070
  Regional
• Battle of Antioch, Syria1085
  Regional
• Battle of Civetot1096
  Regional
• Battle of Xerigordon1096
  Regional
• Battle of Dorylaeum1147
  Regional
• Battle of Elasa1167
  Regional
• Battle of Myriocephalum1176
  Regional