High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1061
Seljuk Empire Reaches Its Territorial Apex Under Alp Arslan
1061
The new sultan Alp Arslan inherited from his uncle Tughril Beg a domain stretching from Khorasan to Iraq, and immediately began extending it. His campaigns pressed into the Caucasus, Armenia, and the Byzantine frontier, while his vizier Nizam al-Mulk professionalized the bureaucracy behind him. The Seljuk state was becoming what the Abbasid caliphate had once been - the political center of gravity for the entire Islamic east.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.