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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]
1071 Battle of Manzikert Malazgirt Alp Arslan Emperor Romanos IV Seljuk Turks[12]
1095 Battle of Rey near Rey, Iran Tutush I
Emir of Damascus 		Barkiyaruq
Sultan Seljuk Empire 		Barkiyaruq[13]
1115 Battle of Sarmin Sarmin, Syria Bursuq bin Bursuq
of Hamadan 		Roger of Salerno
Regent of Antioch 		Roger of Salerno[14]
1117 2nd Battle of Ghazni plain of Shahrabad, near Ghazni[15] Ahmad Sanjar
Bahram-Shah 		Arslan Shah (Sultan of Ghaznavid Empire) Ahmad Sanjar(Sultan of the Great Seljuq Empire)[15]
1119 Battle of Saveh Saveh, Iran Mahmud II of Great Seljuq Ahmad Sanjar Ahmad Sanjar[16]
1176 Battle of Myriokephalon Near Lake Beyşehir Kilij Arslan II
Sultan of Rum 		Manuel I Komnenos
Byzantine Emperor 		Sultanate of Rum[17]
1243 Battle of Kose Dag between Erzincan and Gümüşhane Kaykhusraw II
Sultan of Rum 		Baiju
Mongol general 		Mongols[18]

References

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  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. ^ Tucker 2011, p. 108.
  13. ^ Bosworth 1968, p. 38.
  14. ^ Smail 1995, p. 29.
  15. ^ a b Bosworth 1977, p. 96.
  16. ^ Bosworth 1968, p. 120.
  17. ^ Magdalino 1993, p. 98.
  18. ^ Wolper 1995, p. 40.

Sources

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  • Ibn al-Athir, 'Izz al-Din (2002). Hillenbrand, Carole (ed.). The Annals of the Saljuq Turks. Translated by Richards, D.S. Routledge.
  • Basan, Osman Aziz (2010). The Great Seljuqs: A History. Routledge.
  • Beihammer, Alexander D. (2011). "Defection across the Border of Islam and Christianity: Apostasy and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Byzantine-Seljuk Relations". Speculum. Vol. 86, No. 3 July. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Bosworth, C.E. (1968). "The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World (A.D. 1000-1217)". In Boyle, J.A. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran: The Saljuq and Mongol Period. Vol. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Bosworth, C.E. (1977). The Later Ghaznavids:Splendour and Decay. Columbia University Press.
  • Grousset, Rene (1991). The Empire of the Steppes: a History of Central Asia. Translated by Walford, Naomi. Rutgers University Press.
  • Magdalino, Paul (1993). The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180. Cambridge University Press.
  • Safi, Omid (2006). The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Sicker, Martin (2000). The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna. Greenwood Publishers.
  • Smail, R. C. (1995). Crusading Warfare, 1097-1193. Cambridge University Press.
  • Tucker, Spencer (2011). Battles that Changed History: An Encyclopedia of World Conflict. ABC-CLIO.
  • Wolper, Ethel Sara (1995). Necipoğlu, Gülru (ed.). "The Politics of Patronage:Political Change and the Construction of Dervish Lodges in Sivas". Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. XII. Brill.
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