born с 1030
died November? 1072/January 1073
Second sultan of the Seljūq dynasty , who added Georgia, Armenia, and much of Anatolia to his domains of Khorāsān and western Iran.
He preferred conquest to governing and left the administration of his empire to his famous vizier, Byzantine Empire at the Battle of {{link=Manzikert, Battle of">Manzikert opened the door for the eventual Turkish conquest of Anatolia. He died a year later when mortally wounded by a prisoner during a quarrel.