A collection of theme songs from the Seljuks of Iraq / Seljuks of Rûm campaigns in the historical Broken Crescent mod for Medieval II: Total War. "The Seljuqs originated from the Qynyk branch of the Oghuz Turks, who in the 9th century lived on the periphery of the Muslim world, north of the Caspian and Aral seas in their Yabghu Khaganate of the Oghuz confederacy, in the Kazakh Steppe of Turkestan. During the 10th century, due to various events, the Oghuz Turks had come into close contact with Muslim cities. When Seljuq, the leader of the Seljuq clan, had a falling out with Yabghu, the supreme chieftain of the Oghuz Turks, he split his clan off from the bulk of the Tokuz-Oghuz and set up camp on the west bank of the lower Syr Darya (Jaxartes). Around 985, Seljuq converted to Islam. In the 11th century the Seljuqs migrated from their ancestral homelands into mainland Persia, in the province of Khorasan where they encountered the Ghaznavid empire. The Seljuqs defeated the Ghaznavids at the battle of the Nasa plains in 1035. Tughril, Chaghri, and Yabghu received the insignias of governor, grants of land, and were given the Persian titles of dehqan. At the battle of Dandanaqan they defeated a Ghaznavid army, and after a successful siege of Isfahan by Tughril in 1050/51, they established an empire later called the Great Seljuk Empire. The Seljuqs mixed with the local population and adopted the Persian culture and language in the following decades. After arriving in Persia, the Seljuqs adopted Persian culture and used Persian language as the official language of government, and played an important role in the development of the Turko-Persian tradition which features Persian culture patronized by Turkic military rulers. Today, they are remembered as great patrons of Persian culture, art, literature, and language and are regarded as the partial ancestors of the Western Turks – the present-day inhabitants of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Turkmenistan." - Wikipedia (Seljuq dynasty)

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