High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1061
Alp Arslan succeeds Tughril Beg
1061
The nephew of the Seljuk founder inherited the sultanate on Tughril's death. A fearsome warrior, Alp Arslan would push Seljuk power into Georgia, crush Byzantine frontier provinces, and within a decade crown his career by capturing the Byzantine emperor on the battlefield of Manzikert in eastern Anatolia. His magnanimous treatment of Romanus IV after capture became legendary in both Islamic and Christian sources.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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