Alp Arslan

Alp Arslan (1029 - 1072), is a Sultan seldjoukide reigning of 1063 with 1072.

Biography

It reaches the throne in 1063, with died of his uncle, and having for Vizier large the Ministre Nizam Al-Mulk. It fights the Byzantine victoriously and leaves to shift against the Syria, the Palestine, and the Egypt. To ensure its backs, it annexes the kingdom of Arménie, and subjects the Armenian . Anxious on its power, the Byzantine Empereur Romain IV Diogène decides to go towards the is with its meeting: suicidal act . Alp Arslan and its solids Guerrier S Turkish overcome it in 1071 with famous the Bataille of Manzikert (Malazgirt, close to the Lac of Van) and exterminate its Armée. This bright Victoire, sounding the beginning of the end for the Byzantine Empire, enables him to seize the Anatolia and to threaten Byzance.

Alp Arslan entrusts to one his/her cousins, Süleyman Shah, the mission of completing the conquest.

It is killed by treachery the following year, in 1072, by a prisoner, probably bought by the enemy.

His/her son Malik Shah I {{er}} succeeds to him.

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