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Romanos IV Diogenes
Byzantine emperor (r. 1068–1071) who was captured by the Seljuks at Manzikert and, after his release, was overthrown in a coup
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The Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan routed the Byzantine army at Manzikert in eastern Anatolia and took Emperor Romanos IV prisoner.
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- Alp Arslan1029 – 1072
Seljuk sultan (r. 1063–1072), nephew of Tughril Beg, who captured the Byzantine emperor at Manzikert in 1071
Themes this person appears in
- Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533
From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own