10515 "In about 985 the Seljuk clan split off from the bulk of the Tokuz-Oghuz  a confederacy of nine clans long settled between the Aral and Caspian Seas  and set up camp on the right bank of the lower Syr Darya (Jaxartes)  in the direction of Jend  near Kzyl Orda in present day south-central Kazakhstan where they were converted to Islam."