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1036

Seljuk Turks take Nishapur

1036

Tughril Beg entered the eastern Persian metropolis without a fight after the city's notables deposed their Ghaznavid governor. Nishapur became the first great Seljuk capital. The shift opened Khorasan to the Turkmen and alarmed the Ghaznavid court at Ghazni to send an army that would meet disaster. Nishapur's scholars and merchants, pragmatic as ever, simply transferred their loyalty to whichever power could guarantee order.

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Before and after in Central Asia

Before: 1031: Seljuks establish themselves in Khorasan
After: 1037: Death of Avicenna in Hamadan

Before and after in War

Before: July 29, 1030: Battle of Stiklestad
After: 1037: Ferdinand I reunites Castile and Leon

Era

High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.