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This is an incomplete list of battles fought by the Seljuk Empire.

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( Color legend for the location of the battle )

Year Name Location Seljuk commander Opponent Victor
1032 Battle of Dabusiyya Ali-Tegin & Seljuk allies Altun Tash (Ghaznavid general) Indecisive [1]
1035 Battle of Nasa Plains Tabaristan Chaghri Beg Begtoghdi (Ghaznavid chamberlain) Seljuq Turks [2]
1038 Battle of Sarakhs Sarakhs Tughril Abu'l-Fadl Suri (Ghaznavid governor of Khurasan) Seljuq Turks [3]
1040 Battle of Dandanaqan near Merv Chaghri Beg, Tughril Mas'ud I of Ghazni (Ghaznavid Sultan) Seljuq Turks [4]
November 1040 Siege of Zaranj Zaranj Ertash (Seljuq Turks) Abu l-Fadl (Ghaznavid commander) Abu l-Fadl joined Seljuq Turks and Zaranj was occupied. [5]
1043-44 Tokharistan Alp Arslan Mawdud (Ghaznavid Sultan) Seljuq Turks [6]
1045-6 near Zaranj Ertash (Seljuq Turks) Ghaznavids [7]
1046 Battle of Ganja near Ganja Qutalmish Byzantine army Seljuk Turks [8]
1048 Battle of Kapetrou near Erzurum İbrahim Yinal
Qutalmish
Katakalon Kekaumenos (Byzantine general) Seljuk Turks [9]
1051 Battle of Hupyan Hupyan Alp Arslan Toghrul of Ghazna (Ghaznavid general) Ghaznavids [10]
1063 Battle of Damghan Damghan Alp Arslan Qutalmish Alp Arslan [11]
1068 Siege of Akhalkalaki Akhalkalaki Alp Arslan Alp Arslan [12]
1071 Battle of Manzikert Malazgirt Alp Arslan Emperor Romanos IV Alp Arslan [13]
1086 Battle of Aleppo near Aleppo, Syria Suleiman ibn Qutalmish Tutush I Tutush I [14]
1095 Battle of Rey near Rey, Iran Tutush I
Emir of Damascus
Barkiyaruq
Sultan Seljuk Empire
Barkiyaruq [15]
1097 Battle of Dorylaeum Dorylaeum Kilij Arslan I, Gazi Gümüshtigin Crusaders:
Bohemond of Taranto
Robert Curthose
Godfrey of Bouillon
Adhemar of Le Puy
Crusader victory [16]
1107 Battle of Khabur river near Mosul, Iraq Kilij Arslan I Muhammad I Tapar Muhammad I Tapar [17]
1115 Battle of Sarmin Sarmin, Syria Bursuq bin Bursuq
of Hamadan
Roger of Salerno
Regent of Antioch
Roger of Salerno [18]
1117 2nd Battle of Ghazni plain of Shahrabad, near Ghazni [19] Ahmad Sanjar
Bahram-Shah
Arslan Shah (Sultan of Ghaznavid Empire) Ahmad Sanjar (Sultan of the Great Seljuq Empire) [19]
1119 Battle of Saveh Saveh, Iran Mahmud II of Great Seljuq Ahmad Sanjar Ahmad Sanjar [20]
1176 Battle of Myriokephalon Near Lake Beyşehir Kilij Arslan II
Sultan of Rum
Manuel I Komnenos
Byzantine Emperor
Sultanate of Rum [21]
1141 Battle of Qatwan north Samarkand Ahmad Sanjar, Sultan of the Seljuk Empire Yelü Dashi, Emperor of the Qara Khitai Qara Khitai [22]
1243 Battle of Kose Dag between Erzincan and Gümüşhane Kaykhusraw II
Sultan of Rum
Baiju
Mongol general
Mongols [23]

References

  1. ^ Bosworth 1968, p. 19.
  2. ^ Ibn al-Athir 2002, p. 35.
  3. ^ Safi 2006, p. 24.
  4. ^ Grousset 1991, p. 147.
  5. ^ Bosworth 1977, p. 28.
  6. ^ Bosworth 1977, p. 26.
  7. ^ Bosworth 1977, p. 29.
  8. ^ Sicker 2000, p. 54.
  9. ^ Beihammer 2011, p. 606-607.
  10. ^ Bosworth 1977, p. 43.
  11. ^ Basan 2010, p. 72.
  12. ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 81.
  13. ^ Tucker 2011, p. 108.
  14. ^ Grousset 1991, p. 154.
  15. ^ Bosworth 1968, p. 38.
  16. ^ Runciman 1969, p. 292-294.
  17. ^ Turan 1970, p. 239.
  18. ^ Smail 1995, p. 29.
  19. ^ a b Bosworth 1977, p. 96.
  20. ^ Bosworth 1968, p. 120.
  21. ^ Magdalino 1993, p. 98.
  22. ^ Biran 2005, p. 41.
  23. ^ Wolper 1995, p. 40.

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