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Arslan defeated Kutalmish for the throne and succeeded on 27 April 1064 as sultan of the Seljuk Empire, thus becoming the sole monarch of Persia from the river Oxus to the Tigris. In 1064 he led a campaign in Georgia during which he captured the regions between Tbilisi and the Çoruh river, Akhalkalaki and Alaverdi. [ 10 ]
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Alp-Arslan, (born c. 1030—died November? 1072/January 1073), Second sultan of the Seljūq dynasty, who added Georgia, Armenia, and much of Anatolia to his domains of Khorāsān and western Iran. He preferred conquest to governing and left the administration of his empire to his famous vizier, Niẓām al-Mulk. In 1071 his victory over the Byzantine Empir...
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Aug 12, 2015 · Sultan Alp Arslan regarded the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt as his main enemy; he had no desire to engage the neighbouring Byzantines in unnecessary hostilities and as such, in the same year of 1069, he entered into a treaty where he had committed to preventing Seljuk raiding on Byzantine territory.
Alp Arslan (ruled 1063–72), second of the powerful Seljuk sultans (Turkish leaders), was indirectly responsible for beginning the Crusades, the two-centuries-long conflict between Christians and the followers of the Muslim religion.
Sultan Alp Arslan prepared a large army with the intention invading Egypt to rid it of the Fatimids. On the way, he besieged the city of Diyarbakır and took control of it, ...
Feb 6, 2018 · The Seljuk leader was Alp Arslan (r. 1063-1073 CE) and, along with an empire now covering Iran, Iraq, and most of the Near East, the sultan had at his disposal an army of highly skilled and mobile horsemen. Romanos' army was big, according to some sources it had 300,000 men, although modern historians prefer a figure of 60-70,000, still double ...
Because of his military prowess, Alp Arslan, the Turkish sultan of the Seljuk Empire, managed to defeat the Byzantine Emperor, Romanus IV Diogenes, and annex Anatolia. The fiery Turkish sultan...
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