The Battle of Malazgirt is one of the most crucial incidents and a turning point in world history.
On August 26, 1071, Alp Arslan, the sultan of the Muslim Turkic Seljuk dynasty, defeated a large Byzantium army led by Romanos IV Diogenes, the emperor of the Greek-led Christian empire and great power of the time along with Europe’s Holy Roman Empire, at the Battle of Malazgirt.
The victory allowed the Muslims to establish an individual state, the Anatolian branch of the Seljuks.
Ahead of Malazgirt, Alp Arslan also weakened the two main regional Christian allies of the Byzantium Empire, Armenians, and Georgians, in consecutive battles in Caucasia and eastern Anatolia.
The battle also signifies the most important starting point of the Turkmen march and conquest across the Balkan Peninsula, Hungary, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the whole of North Africa, and the Black Sea Basin, establishing the world’s greatest and the most continuous empire, the Ottoman Empire.
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