| Article about "Seljuk Turks" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (620 words) |
 | The Seljuk Turks (Arabic: Saljūq; also Seldjuk, Seldjuq, Seljuq) were a major branch of the Oghuz Turks and a dynasty that occupied parts of Central Asia and the Middle East in the 9th to 13th century. |
| The lands of the Seljuk empire, called the Great Seljuk, covered approximately today's Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, all of the Middle East and a part of the Arabian peninsula. |
| When Toğrül was defeated by the Shah of Khwarezmid Empire, Allah ad-Din Tekish, in 1194, and Great Seljuk finally collapsed, the Sultanate of Rüm in Anatolia was all that remained of the Seljuks. |
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