Tughril

Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika'il (), better known as Tughril (; also spelled Toghril), was a TurkomanGrousset, Rene, The Empire of the Steppes, (Rutgers University Press, 1991), 161,164; "It is to be noted that the Seljuks, those Turkomans who became sultans of Persia...""The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes
by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is taken as a turning point in the history of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire. chieftain, who founded the Seljuk Empire, ruling from 1037 to 1063.

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Category:Seljuk Sultans
Category:11th-century Asian people