In the late 10th century, a nomadic chief named Seljuk broke away from his Khazar overlords in the north of the Caspian Sea. Thus began his tribe’s migration from the lands of modern-day Kazakhstan ...

In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought ...

Researchers have retrieved detailed insights into the profiles of several Anatolian Seljuk Dynasty members through DNA and ...

At that time, a clan leader named Seljuk founded a dynasty and the empire that bore his name on the basis of those Oghuz elements that had migrated southward into present-day Turkmenistan and Iran.

However, as he lived and produced his works under the Seljuk Empire, now modern day Turkey, he is also considered a national icon there. Rumi was a Sufi poet, theologian and teacher who was born ...