Seljuk+Turks

This is a map to show the land we conquered. || ||   ||   ||   || This is a picture of us fighting in Antioch. ||  ||
 * =**Selçuk Turks (1071-1194)**= ||
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 * =**Friends**= ||
 * Abbasids ||


 * Arabs ||


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 * =**Technology/Achievements or Accomplishments**= ||
 * The first big achievement from us is when we fought for present day Turkey and won in 1071. This is when we started taking off into success, we beat the Byzantines left and right, but they held off on Constantinople, other than that we own the rest of Turkey. The Selçuk Turks became the one of the biggest and powerfulest empires of its time. In the Selçuk Turk's golden age the empire stretched from the Mediterranean sea to the mountains in central asia. In Iraq, the Abbasid Caliph called the Seljuk leader, Tugrul Bey "The King of the East and West." ||

media type="youtube" key="fojVrtjcem0" height="112" width="144" media type="youtube" key="L_Cf-ZxDfZA" height="112" width="144" Many pieces of pottery and art were made with hand painted tile. The tiles main inspiration were tulips, with many blues and reds. Some common motives for art work were bulls, lions, double-headed eagles, and dragons. Many Turks are living with a nature with superstition, one example is the evil eye. An evil eye is a look of jealousy from someone which ends up with the victim being hurt physically or emotionally. Sufi music plus whirling dervishes equaled entertainment for many people. ||
 * =**Culture**= ||
 * The Selçuk Turks were big in art, literature, and architecture. The Seljuk Turks are tolerant of any race or religion. Poetry flourished with poets such as Omar Khayyam and Jelaleddin Rumi. The Turks architecture contained mostly of impressive brickwork. Some people describe the Seljuk Turk's architecture as "poetry in stone."


 * =**Religion**= ||
 * The Selçuk Turks practice Islam. We accept other religions, but the majority of us are muslim. Most of our subjects that we have conquered transferred from their many religions to Islam. In the Sultanate of Rum, mostly Anotolian Christians are being governed along with a pretty big group of jewish people and not many others. The amount of churches and synagogues have now started increasing with their freedom of religion. A large fraction of us are Sunnites and very few are Shiites. ||

2. The First Crusade has started, and we Turks are still in a state of fighting each other instead of cooperating. We defeated the people in the untrained Peoples Crusade, easily. We just can't stop the progress of the army of the Prince's crusade. In this crusade we lost some important cities like Nicaea, Iconium, Kayseri, and Antioch. The army then captured the Holy Land in 1099, this does not look promising fro us. 3. In 1299, the shattered Seljuk groups are now forming one big group called the Ottoman empire. There is now peace among us Turks and our new leader, the first Sultan ever, is Osman Gazi! Our new capital is Bursa. Osman Gazi ruled from 1299 to 1326. ||
 * =**Blog**= ||
 * 1. In 1902, Malikshah the first, died. This lead us to the point of splitting into 16 different states. At this point we were killing each other for territory, as we fight each other we only became weaker and weaker.


 * =**The Wall**= ||
 * //May I be your friend? -Arabs//

Thanks for letting me be your friend! I just wanted to thank you for converting to Muslim. It was extremely hard to get you guys to convert. Now we can connect easier and have an alliance with you because we both practice the same thing. Make sure you guys are studying the Qu'ran. -Arabs ||

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