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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Tughril

990 - 1063

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Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika'il (Persian: ابوطالبْ محمد طغرل بن میکائیل), better known as Tughril (طغرل / طغریل; also spelled Toghril), was a Turkoman chieftain, who founded the Seljuk Empire, ruling from 1037 to 1063. Tughril united many Turkoman warriors of the Central Asian steppes into a confederacy of tribes and led them in conquest of Khorasan and eastern Persia. He would later establish the Seljuk Sultanate after conquering Persia and taking the Abbasid capital of Baghdad from the Buyids in 1055. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tughril has received more than 635,703 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Tughril is the 54th most popular military personnel, the 23rd most popular biography from Iran (up from 38th in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Military Personnel.

Tughril is most famous for leading the Seljuk Turks to victory in the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.

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  • 640k

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  • 73.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tughril ranks 54 out of 1,468. Before him are Vasily Zaitsev, Isoroku Yamamoto, Miltiades, T. E. Lawrence, Alfred Jodl, and Belisarius. After him are Otto Skorzeny, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Fedor von Bock, Walter Model, Germanicus, and Erich Ludendorff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 990, Tughril ranks 2. Before him is Lady Godiva. After him are Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, Pope Nicholas II, Sancho III of Pamplona, Bi Sheng, Mieszko II Lambert, Gisela of Swabia, Samuel Aba, Jovan Vladimir, Stefan Vojislav, and Hilarion of Kiev. Among people deceased in 1063, Tughril ranks 1. After him are Emperor Renzong of Song, Béla I of Hungary, Ramiro I of Aragon, Richeza of Lotharingia, Catherine of Bulgaria, Geoffrey I of Provence, Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, and Albert II, Count of Namur.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Tughril ranks 23 out of 528. Before him are Ulugh Beg (1394), Ali Khamenei (1939), Hafez (1325), Abu Nuwas (762), Nader Shah (1688), and Tahmasp I (1514). After him are Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), Al-Tabari (839), Nizam al-Mulk (1018), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), Khosrow I (501), and Darius II (-475).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Iran

Among military personnels born in Iran, Tughril ranks 1. After him are Qasem Soleimani (1957), Bahram Chobin (600), Datis (-600), Harpagus (-700), Jalil Zandi (1951), Esmail Ghaani (1957), Hossein Salami (1960), Mohammad Ali Jafari (1957), and Nasser Shabani (1957).

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