Seljuks establish themselves in Khorasan

1031

Under the brothers Tughril and Chagri, the Oghuz Turkish warband defeated Ghaznavid forces and began controlling towns in northeastern Persia. Their rise would sweep them within twenty years to the Abbasid caliph's throne itself, creating a new empire stretching from Syria to Transoxiana under a single sultan. Persian bureaucrats quickly attached themselves to the new power, giving steppe warriors the administrative machinery of a civilization.