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- adjective
Seljuk - proper noun
Seljuk
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Examples
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They served first as hired soldiers, but were finally united by their leader, Seljuk, into a strong people called the Seljukian Turks.
Winning a Cause World War Stories Inez Bigwood 1901
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Yet the ungrateful Hashemite had changed with the change of fortune; he applauded the victory of Zendecan, and named the Seljukian sultan his temporal vicegerent over the
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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With the overthrow of Kerbogha all pressing danger from the Seljukian Turks and the Caliph of Baghdad was ended for several years at least.
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-- While the power of the Seljukian Turks was declining in Western Asia, the Mongols, or Moguls, a fierce and utterly untamed Tartar tribe that first issued from the easternmost part of
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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But in the eleventh century the Seljukian Turks, a prominent Tartar tribe, zealous proselytes of Islam, wrested from the caliphs almost all their Asiatic possessions.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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Arabian Mohammedanism had succumbed to the wild fanaticism of the Seljukian Turks.
The Negro 1915
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In the Middle Ages it is often mentioned by Byzantine historians in connexion with the wars with the Seljukian sultans of Iconium.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Isaurian, and buried in a tekke of Bektashi dervishes founded by the mother of the Seljukian sultan, Aladdin the Great.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Colonia retained its importance under the Seljukian Turks and even under the Ottomans, who captured it in 1473.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913
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The rise of the Seljukian Turks, however, compromised the safety of pilgrims and even threatened the independence of the Byzantine Empire and of all Christendom.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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