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 / Tughrul), 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 664,738 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Tughril is the 45th most popular military personnel (up from 54th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Iran (up from 23rd 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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  • 73.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tughril ranks 45 out of 2,058. Before him are T. E. Lawrence, Douglas MacArthur, Lü Bu, Ratko Mladić, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and Tariq ibn Ziyad. After him are Romulus Augustulus, Isoroku Yamamoto, Michel Ney, Roland, Baron Munchausen, and Mikhail Kutuzov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 990, Tughril ranks 1. After him are Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, Lady Godiva, Pope Nicholas II, Sancho III of Pamplona, Bi Sheng, Samuel Aba, Mieszko II Lambert, Jovan Vladimir, Gisela of Swabia, 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, Constantine Leichoudes, 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 22 out of 631. Before him are Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Hafez (1325), Ulugh Beg (1394), Cambyses II (-550), Malik-Shah I (1055), and Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078). After him are Al-Tabari (839), Bodhidharma (483), Tahmasp I (1514), Nader Shah (1688), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), and Khosrow I (501).

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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), Esmail Ghaani (1957), Hossein Salami (1960), Jalil Zandi (1951), Ahmad Vahidi (1958), Mohammad Ali Jafari (1957), Nasser Shabani (1957), and Razi Mousavi (1962).

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