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Turkish dynasty
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seljuk
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Seljuk ( Saljūq ; also Seldjuk , Seldjuq , Seljuq ; died 1038) was the eponymous hero of the Seljuq Turks . He was the son of a certain Toqaq surnamed Temür Yalığ (meaning "of the iron bow") and either the chief or an eminent member from the Kınık tribe ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Turkish dynasty of 11c.-13c., c.1600 ( Selzuccian ), from Turkish seljuq , name of reputed ancestor of the dynasty.
Usage examples of seljuk.
Syria was conquered by the Fatimites, who were succeeded by the Seljuks, who captured Damascus about A.
Mongols began to pour in from the east, sacking Samarkand and overrunning most of the expanse of the old Parthia before a Moslem army of Seljuks, Swarizmi, Kurds, Ortuquids, Zangids, Abbasids, and Azerbaijans met them on the banks of the Tigris and were soundly trounced.
Although the Mongol conquest was brief, it was terrible, and it broke the power of the Islamic Arabs, paving the way for the rise of the Turkish empires, first of the Seljuks and later of the Ottomans, who would rule Iraq for nearly four hundred years, until the First World War.
The chief from whom the dynasty of Seljuks derived its appellation, was by birth a Turkoman, of Turkistan, on the north-eastern side of the river Sihon or Jaxartes, but in the service of a prince of Khozar, on the Wolga, from which he fled and pursued his fortune in Transoxiana.