Examples of Seljuk in the following topics:
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Islamic Architecture
- Ottoman mosques and other architecture first emerged in the cities of Bursa and Edirne in the 14th and 15th centuries, developing from earlier Seljuk Turk architecture, with additional influences from Byzantine, Persian, and Islamic Mamluk traditions.
- Isfahan, the capital of both the Seljuk and Safavid dynasties, bears the most prominent samples of the Safavid architecture, such as the the Imperial Mosque, which was constructed in the years after Shah Abbas I permanently moved the capital there in 1598.
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The Double Disasters
- This led to the mass movement of Turks into central Anatolia—by 1080, an area of 78,000 square kilometres (30,000 sq mi) had been gained by the Seljuk Turks.
- It was not an immediate disaster, but the defeat showed the Seljuks that the Byzantines were not invincible—they were not the unconquerable, millennium-old Roman Empire (as both the Byzantines and Seljuks still called it).
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The Last Byzantine Dynasty
- The Nicaean Empire was successful in holding its own against its Latin and Seljuk opponents.
- At the Battle of Meander Valley, a Turkic force was repelled and an earlier assault on Nicaea led to the death of the Seljuk Sultan.
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Safavid Dynasty
- Isfahan, the capital of both the Seljuk and Safavid dynasties, bears the most prominent samples of the Safavid architecture, such as the the Imperial Mosque, Masjid-e Shah, the Imam Mosque, the Lutfallah Mosque, and the Royal Palace, which were all constructed in the years after Shah Abbas I permanently moved the capital there in 1598.
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Ottoman Empire
- Ottoman mosques and other architecture first emerged in the cities of Bursa and Edirne in the 14th and 15th centuries, developing from earlier Seljuk Turk architecture, with additional influences from Byzantine, Persian, and Islamic Mamluk traditions.
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Crisis and Fragmentation
- However, he still did not have enough manpower to recover the lost territories in Asia Minor and to advance against the Seljuks.