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Selino(u)s (settlement)
Selino(u)s (Σελινοῦς), an ancient settlement at modern Krestena in Elis, Peloponnese, distinct from the Sicilian Selinus, Cilician Selinous/Traianopolis, and the Skopelos colony of the same name.
Selinous/Traianopolis
Selinous (Σελινοῦς), later Traianopolis, was a port city in Rough Cilicia at modern Gazipaşa, Turkey, where Emperor Trajan died in 117 CE, prompting the renaming; distinct from Selinus in Sicily.
Selinus
Selinus (Σελῑνοῦς), the modern Selinunte, was a major Greek city on the south-west coast of Sicily, founded by Megara Hyblaea colonists and destroyed by a Carthaginian army in 409 BC.
SELION RISTA
SELION RISTA (セリオンリスタ) is a free glass-walled indoor park at Akita Port, opened 1995 next to Port Tower Selion; 2,304 m², themed on the Omono River and Sea of Japan, home to a famous udon vending machine.
Selita Ebanks
Selita Ebanks is a Caymanian-born model, actress, and philanthropist, a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2005 who succeeded Tyra Banks, starred in Kanye West's Runaway, and founded the Stardom Youth Foundation.
Selitrennoye mollusks Formation
Selitrennoye mollusk fauna (Селитренное), a Late Pleistocene Hyrcanian-stage (107 ± 7 ka) fossil assemblage near Astrakhan, Russia: 24 gastropod and 13 bivalve species, 99% endemic, a natural baseline for pre-invasive Caspian Sea faunas.
Selja Kumari
Selja Kumari, born in 1962 in Chandigarh, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Sirsa, Haryana, in the Lok Sabha since 2024 and earlier served as a Union cabinet minister.
Seljuk brickwork
Seljuk brickwork is the tradition of structural and decorative baked-brick masonry developed under the Seljuk Turks in Iran and selectively in Anatolia, 11th to 13th centuries.
Seljuk campaigns against Alamut
The Seljuk campaigns against Alamut (حملة على الحشاشين) were Seljuk expeditions against the Nizari Isma'ili fortress of Alamut from 1092 to 1118, all of which failed.
Seljuk capture of Alanya
The Seljuk capture of Alanya (فتح علائیه) was the 1221 takeover of the fortress Kalonoros, modern Alanya, by Sultan Kayqubad I, who renamed it Ala'iyya.
Seljuk capture of Baghdad (1055)
The Seljuk capture of Baghdad (دخول طغرل بغداد ١٠٥٥) was the peaceful entry of Seljuk sultan Tughril Beg into Baghdad in December 1055, ending Buyid rule.
Seljuk capture of Jerusalem (1073)
The Seljuk capture of Jerusalem (فتح القدس) was the takeover of the city from the Fatimid caliphate by Turcoman forces under Atsiz ibn Uwaq, in 1071 and again in 1073.
Seljuk capture of Sinop
The Seljuk capture of Sinop (Sinop'un Fethi) was the seizure of the Black Sea port of Sinop from the Empire of Trebizond by Sultan Izzeddin Keykavus I in late 1214.
Seljuk caravanserais
Seljuk caravanserais are fortified roadside inns built under Seljuk rule, above all in Anatolia from the 1180s to the 1280s, offering merchants free food and three days' lodging.
Seljuk central administration
Seljuk central administration (دیوان سلجوقی) was the bureaucratic apparatus of the Great Seljuk Empire, directed from a supreme divan presided over by the vizier and codified by Nizam al-Mulk.
Seljuk civil war of Barkiyaruq and Muhammad Tapar
The Seljuk civil war of Barkiyq and Muhammad was a struggle for the Great Seljuk authority by the Sultan's sons from 1098 to 1104, ending in the Interregnum.
Seljuk coinage
Seljuk coinage is the currency struck by the Seljuk dynasties of the Middle East, whose coins carried sultans' names and titles as public claims of sovereignty.
Seljuk conquest of Anatolia
The Seljuk conquest of Anatolia was the Turkic takeover of Byzantine Anatolia from the 11th to 12th centuries, decisively advanced by the 1071 Battle of Manzikert.
Seljuk conquest of Fatimid Syria
The Seljuk conquest of Fatimid Syria was the Seljuk takeover of Fatimid Syria and Palestine, led by Atsiz ibn Uvaq, who took Damascus in 1076.
Seljuk conquest of Kirman
The Seljuk conquest of Kirman (فتح كرمان) was the takeover of the southeastern Iranian province of Kirman by Qavurt, son of Chaghri Beg, ending Buyid rule around 1048.
Seljuk diwan
The Seljuk diwan (دیوان) was the Persian bureaucracy through which the Great Seljuk state was governed, adopted in 1040 and organized under the vizier Nizam al-Mulk.
Seljuk dynasty (سلجوقیان)
Seljuk dynasty (سلجوقیان): Oghuz Turkic dynasty founding the Great Seljuk empire (Dandanaqan 1040, Baghdad 1055, Manzikert 1071) and the Sultanate of Rum at Konya, Persianate in culture, Sunni in legitimacy, ending under Mongol vassalage after Köse Dagh 1243.
Seljuk Empire (سلجوقیان)
Seljuk Empire (سلجوقیان), or Great Seljuq Empire, a Turkic Muslim state founded by Tughril and Chagri Beg of the Oghuz Turks; Dandanaqan 1040, Manzikert 1071 under Alp Arslan, Nizam al-Mulk's military iqta system, lasting 1040–1157.
Seljuk ibn Duqaq
Seljuk ibn Duqaq (سلجوق بن دقاق) was a chief of the Qiniq tribe of the Oghuz Turks who converted to Islam at Jand and gave his name to the Seljuk dynasty.
Seljuk invasions of the Caucasus
The Seljuk invasions of the Caucasus were a series of Turkic Muslim campaigns and raids into Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan during the 11th and early 12th centuries.
Seljuk migration to Khurasan
The Seljuk migration to Khurasan was the Saljuq family and Oghuz Turkmen crossing from Transoxania into Ghaznavid Khurasan in 1035, leading to the founding of the Great Saljuq dynasty.
Seljuk settlement in Armenia
Seljuk settlement in Armenia was the establishment of Turkic, Kurdish, and Persian populations in the Armenian highlands following the Seljuk invasions and conquest of the 11th and 12th centuries.
Seljuk war of succession (1092–1105)
The Seljuk war of succession (1092–1105), جنگ جانشینی ملکشاه, was the civil war after Sultan Malik-Shah I died in 1092, fought between his son Barkiyaruq and rival claimants.
Seljuk–Ghaznavid wars
The Seljuk–Ghaznavid wars (1035–1040) ended at the Battle of Dandanaqan in 1040, when the Seljuks under Tughril and Chaghri Beg took Khurasan from the Ghaznavids.
Seljuks of Rum
The Seljuks of Rum (سلجوقیان روم) were a Turkish dynasty that ruled much of Anatolia from about 1081 to 1308, first from Iznik and later from Konya.