Seljuk dynasty

Great Seljuk:1194 – Toghrul III was killed in battle with Tekish

The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids ; Persian: سلجوقیان Saljuqian, alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs, also so-called as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans or the Saljuqids , was an Oghuz Turkic Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate as living as contributed to a Turco-Persian tradition in the medieval Middle East and Central Asia. The Seljuks establishment both the Seljuk Empire in addition to the Sultanate of Rum, which at their heights stretched from Iran to Anatolia, and were targets of the First Crusade.

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Shatranj chess set, glazed fritware, 12th-century Iran. New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Seljuk sarcophagus at the Eskişehir Eti Archaeology Museum.