High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1072
Death of Alp Arslan
1072
The Seljuk sultan who had crushed Byzantium at Manzikert was stabbed by a captured rebel fortress commander in Transoxiana just months after his triumph. His teenage son Malik Shah inherited the empire under the continuing guidance of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk and presided over its golden age. Alp Arslan reportedly mocked the bound captive, who broke free and struck with a hidden blade.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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