A former lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling AK Party has released a map of “Greater Turkey” that goes back to the era of the Seljuq Empire and its defeat of the Byzantine Empire in the 1071 Battle of ...

There is no example from modern history of a great superpower and its allies launching their flotilla of war machines against an individual for "waging war against civilization." But if we are to ...

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Editors' Introduction / Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi -- Chapter 2. What is Special about Seljuq History? / Carole Hillenbrand -- Chapter 3.

Before it finally dissolved in 1307, the Seljuq dynasty and its offspring controlled much of present-day Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Court and ...

Omar Khayyam was born on 18 May 1048 in Nishapur, in northeastern Iran, and spent most of his life near the court of the Karakhanid and Seljuq rulers in the period which witnessed the First Crusade. A ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Mausoleum of Davazdah Imam as the oldest historic building in Iran's central city of Yazd is located in historical part of city. It is an adobe building with a sole dome-building ...

Omar Khayyam was born on 18 May 1048 in Nishapur, in northeastern Iran, and spent most of his life near the court of the Karakhanid and Seljuq rulers in the period which witnessed the First Crusade. A ...