It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk ...

The Byzantine Empire, which lasted for over a millennium, is one of history's most fascinating empires, not just for its ...

The Seljuk Empire – a Turkish state in Anatolia that drove out the Byzantines and eventually gave way to the Ottoman Empire – controlled the greater area of what is today northeast Turkey and ...

The Seljuk Empire. The Seljuk Empire was founded by Turkic mercenaries from Central Asia who first conquered Khorasan, then Persia, and finally Iraq.

The 'glazed ceramics' featuring various figures, uncovered during excavations at the Ani archaeological site – listed as a ...

Muslim Oghuz Turks migrating from Central Asia established the Seljuk dynasty, known as the Great Seljuk Empire, which included modern-day Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and Iran in the mid-11th ...

The Seljuk Empire was expanding, the Pechenegs and Cumans were making increasingly frequent incursions, the Hungarians were showing hostility, the usual attempts at usurpation broke out, and inflation ...

Shah was a 12th century military leader of the Seljuk Empire, one of the first Turkish groups to settle in Anatolia, according to Hurriyet Daily News.

The Seljuk Empire – a Turkish state in Anatolia that drove out the Byzantines and eventually gave way to the Ottoman Empire – controlled the greater area of what is today northeast Turkey and ...