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Siege of Mosul; Part of the Seljuk invasions: Old drawing of Mosul: the Kasbah of the Euphrates Island and its most important city, which witnessed the establishment of the Uqaylid State and remained their capital until the collapse of the emirate in 1096.
The army of the People's Crusade landed in Asia Minor on August 6, 1096, and camped at Helenopolis (Civetot/Civetote) to the north-west of Nicaea, at that time capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm. The young Sultan, Kilij Arslan I, was in the middle of a military campaign to the east, fighting the Danishmend emirate.
In 1096, he was tasked to govern the province of Khorasan by his brother Muhammad I. [41] Over the next several years, Ahmad Sanjar became the ruler of most of Iran (Persia), and eventually in 1118, the sole ruler of the Great Seljuk Empire, but with a subordinate Sultan in Iraq in the person of Mahmud II.
In 1054, Sultan Tughril I of the Seljuk Empire besieged Manzikert. [13] The defenders led by Basil Apokapes successfully defeated the Seljuk Turks. [13] Ever since early in the 11th century, the Seljuk Turks from central Asia had been expanding westward, [14] defeating various Arab factions and occupying the Abbasid caliphate's power base in ...
The Battle of Civetot was fought between the forces of the People's Crusade and of the Seljuk Turks of Anatolia on 21 October 1096. The battle brought an end to the People's Crusade; [ 3 ] some of the survivors joined the Princes' Crusade .
1–7 March. The Council of Piacenza is convened, with ambassadors from Alexius I Komnenos beseeching Urban II for help in fighting the Seljuk Turks. [112] [113] 17–27 November. At the Council of Clermont, Urban II issues a call to arms to reconquer the Holy Land for Christendom. [114] The routes of the First Crusaders [115] 1096. Early February.
The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids [1] [2] (/ ˈ s ɛ l dʒ ʊ k / SEL-juuk; Persian: سلجوقیان Saljuqian, [3] alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs), Seljuqs, also known as Seljuk Turks, [4] Seljuk Turkomans [5] or the Saljuqids, [6] was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture [7] [8] in West Asia and Central Asia.
During his reign he acknowledged the supremacy of the Seljuk Empire, although he later came into conflict with them and was temporarily expelled from Mosul. He accompanied the Turk Basasiri when the latter took Baghdad at the end of 1058, but the Seljuks retook the city in the next year.