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Key facts
- Died
- c. 1007 or 1009 (age 100/107), Jand
- Burial
- Unknown, possibly near Jand , Kazakhstan
- Issue
- Arslan Isra'il , Mikail Yabghu , Musa Yabghu , Yusuf Yabghu
- House
- Seljuk dynasty
- Father
- Tuqaq
- Religion
- Islam ( Sunni ) (from 992) Previously: Tengrism
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Seljuk Empire
- Place of death
- Janda
- Father
- Tuqaq
- Occupation
- military leader
- Position held
- monarch
- Religion
- Islam
- Family
- Seljuk dynasty
- Founded by
- list of Seljuq rulers
- Military rank
- traditional leader or chief
- Image
- Male royal figure, 12-13th century, from Iran.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- date of death
- 1038-00-00
- date of birth
- 0990-00-00
- name in native language
- Seljuk beg Dukak
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Encyclopedic overview
Seljuk (died c. 1007 or 1009), variously romanized, was an Oghuz Turk warlord. He was the eponymous founder of the Seljuk dynasty and the namesake of Selçuk, the modern town near the ruins of ancient Ephesus in Turkey.
Name
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Seljuk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.