• 1.4 First Crusade (1095–1099). 1.5 Second Crusade (1147–1149). 1.6 Decline of The Seljuk Empire. 1.7 Conquest by Khwarezm and the Ayyubids.
  • It is also noteworthy to note that the Seljuks respected and protected the caliphacy of the Abbasid caliphate and are staunch enemy of the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt.
  • Despite several attempts to reunite the Seljuks by his successors, the Crusades prevented them from regaining their former empire.
  • The Seljuks are also renowned for their architectural legacies and advancements in science and education, epitomized by their founding of iconic institutions...
  • "It is to be noted that the Seljuks, those Turkomans who became sultans of Persia, did not Turkify Persia-no doubt because they did not wish to do so.
  • The Seljuks called themselves a dynasty (dawla), sultanate (saltana), or kingdom (mulk); it was only the central Asian branch who grew to empire status.
  • The Great Seljuk Empire or the Seljuk Empire was a high medieval Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire, originating from the Qiniq branch of Oghuz Turks.
  • A branch of the Seljuks established its own state in an Tolic (the ultanate of Konya or Rum), which survived until it was conquered by the Mongols in 1243.
  • The Seljuk Empire, officially known as the Great Seljuks, was a Turco-Iranian empire controlling vast regions of Greater Iran, Caucasus, Anatolia and Mashriq.