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It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the ...
In 1071, an army of Seljuk Turks defeated the forces of the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert, striking a decisive blow that paved the way for Muslim settlement of Anatolia and the eventual blossoming ...
The bones of St. Nicholas, the 4th century bishop whose life inspired the tradition of Santa Claus, are currently in a custody battle between Turkey and Italy. Analysis of the bones in the 1950s ...
In the 1071 Battle of Manzikert, Seljuk Turks defeat a Byzantine army and opened up Anatolia for Turkish domination. By the early 12th century, Turkish tribes spread across most of Anatolia.
In 1037, the Seljuk Empire, a Turkic state, was founded northeast of Iran in Central Asia and quickly overran much of Persia, Iraq, and the Levant. By the 1060s, the Seljuk Empire bordered ...
A Seljuk caravanserai built in the 13th century in present-day Turkey is thronged by tourists all year round. ... a stop on the ancient Silk Road, received 500,000 tourists this year, ...
Many of them left their mark on both the landscape and the culture before the Seljuk Turks arrived from Central Asia in the 11th century and laid the foundations of the modern Turkish state.
It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the ...