#Alp Arslan

[christophernolan]

Turns out, the thing that has been catching my attention has been the light inside your eyes. You are God's greatest gift to me.

Alparslan: Great Seljuk Season 2 : Episode 10

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, January 20th:

Gordian III, Roman Emperor, 225

Alp Arslan, Seljuk Sultan, 1029

Elizabeth of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Bohemia, 1292

Sebastian, King of Portugal, 1554

Charles III, King of Spain, 1716

Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, 1751

Anastasia, Princess of Greece and Denmark, 1878

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, 1965

Mathilde, Queen Consort of the Belgians, 1973

[kumraalkoalaa]

ve itiraf etmeliyim ki cok seviyorum

herhangi bir neden duymadan bir seye bagli olmadan

sırf sensin diye cok seviyorum🤍

[crescentmp3]

battle of manzikert my favorite to learn about ever.

[yeniyeniseyler]

NOW - Kötü Kan (Yeni Dizi) (1. Bölüm Fragmanı) (6 Eylül Cuma başlıyor!)

[goceciblog]

Malazgirt’ten 30 Ağustos’a: Türk Milletinin Zaferler Yolu

Cumhuriyetin ilanını kutlamak için 1924 yılında Edirne Türk Ocağı binası önünde toplanan Edirne Türk Ocağı üyeleri, büyük bir coşku ve kararlılıkla Cumhuriyetin ilk yılını kutluyor. Bu tarihi an, Cumhuriyetimizin ilk yıllarında halkın büyük heyecanını ve milli ruhun gücünü yansıtıyor. Cumhuriyetimizin ilk yıllarında Edirne Türk Ocağı’nın taşıdığı önem, Malazgirt’ten 30 Ağustos’a uzanan…

[elshanr]

Malazgirt zəfəri münasibəti ilə bütün Türk dünyasını təbrik edirəm.

[ebubekiracar]

[lightdancer1]

I think it a point worth restating:

The first Muslim claim to Jerusalem is the same claim that the Greek civilization in a Christian form it deposed had. The Yarmuk and Gaugamela have equal legitimacy, if Muslims are the indigenous culture of the region then they supplanted an indigenous culture. If the Greeks they displaced are imperialist colonizers then a religion imposed by soldiers is innately colonialist because it replaced a Christian and Zoroastrian Aramaic and Farsi speaking world with an Arabic Islamic one. Nobody 'voluntarily' adopts a new language, it is always forced by means more or less overtly imperialist, whether or not people have the historical awareness enough to realize this is what happened.

The claim deposed by General Allenby in 1918 at Megiddo was won by the same means by the armies of the Ottoman Sultan, who went against the heirs of Sultan Baibars, eraser of the Crusader states. At the time the three sub-provinces of what would later be termed Palestine were eastern Mamluk zones. As a result of this battle, where the heroic legions of Baibar's successors were butchered by cannons much like they would be again by Napoleon, showing the signal inability of Mamluks to accept the implications of why they were semi-loyal servants of the Ottomans in the first place, the region later merged into Mandatory Palestine became Ottoman territory for 402 years.

And so the question. If winning a battle made Abdulhamid II and the genocidal murder-gang called the Committee of Union and Progress the rightful masters of Jerusalem, why does this only apply to the empire whose conquest unraveled in another conquest and when is the statue of limitations on conquest met?

This is one of the reasons why trying to apply a logic suited to understanding the history of the Americas breaks down very hard in the region where empire begins at the dawn of humankind's experiments in civilization in the hubristic and grandiloquent boasts of the lords of Sumer and Agade of being 'lords of the four corners and all the world.'

Either empires and the identities they spawn as their bastard offspring or legitimate or there's never been any coherent ethnocultural identities in the region, only a sequence of fallen empires and rising and falling religions loosely superimposed into a historical narrative. To grapple with this is to grapple in turn with one of the simplest realities of history. Not every culture comes close to sharing the same narratives or experiences, and projecting the ideal self-image of one culture onto the vastly different experiences when Selim the Grim is a founding father of a 400-year world which was much younger than Ottoman rule of the Balkans, as compared to a world started by James Polk's blundering horde ripping apart the semi-functional and badly wounded Mexico of the Age of Santa Anna.

Some principles, if held to be universal, render entire elements of histories and cultures incoherent and impossible to describe unless one is willing to admit that the history of the Middle East is not that of Europe, or China, or India, or Central Asia, or the Americas, or the Australian continent and that different regions should be treated respectfully, and differently, with awareness the underlying faultlines are also distinct.

[sugurugetos]

they brought diyojen BACK can i get an amen for my fav broad shouldered byzantine commander w great hair and no loyalty to anyone

[whencyclopedia]

Battle of Manzikert

The Battle of Manzikert (Mantzikert) in ancient Armenia in August 1071 CE was one of the greatest defeats suffered by the Byzantine Empire. The victorious Seljuk army captured the Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes, and, with the empire in disarray as generals squabbled for the throne, nothing could stop them sweeping across Asia Minor. Manzikert was not a terrible defeat in terms of casualties or immediate territorial loss, but as a psychological blow to Byzantine military prowess and the sacred person of the emperor, it would resound for centuries and be held up as the watershed after which the Byzantine Empire fell into a long, slow, and permanent decline.

Byzantium & the Seljuks

Romanos IV Diogenes (r. 1068-1071 CE), himself formerly a general, had inherited a Byzantine army in poor shape with inadequate arms and an overreliance on unreliable mercenaries and undisciplined conscripts. His predecessor Constantine X Doukas (r. 1059-1067 CE) had purposely expanded the state civil service, invested heavily in renovating Constantinople and completely neglected the army. Even worse, the empire was over-stretched with too many borders to defend. The Seljuks, in particular, were proving troublesome in Asia Minor. This nomadic tribe from the Asian steppe was of Turkish origin, and they had been repeatedly raiding Byzantine outposts, notably sacking Melitene in 1058 CE and Caesarea in 1067 CE. This necessitated the emperor into strengthening the fortresses around Lake Van which protected the routes into the region from Armenia and central Asia. The Byzantine emperor successfully campaigned in the region in 1070 CE, then, in March 1071 CE, he decided for one monumental push to rid Armenia, and anywhere else for that matter, of the Seljuks once and for all.

The Seljuk leader was Alp Arslan (r. 1063-1073 CE) and, along with an empire now covering Iran, Iraq, and most of the Near East, the sultan had at his disposal an army of highly skilled and mobile horsemen. Romanos' army was big, according to some sources it had 300,000 men, although modern historians prefer a figure of 60-70,000, still double that of the Seljuks. Whatever the size, one indisputable fact was that Romanos' army consisted of a hotchpotch of conscripts and mercenaries which included the Pechenegs and Uzes of the Eurasian Steppe, and even a contingent of Normans led by Roussel de Bailleul. The latter figure, an infamous adventurer, was highly suspect in his loyalty to the cause and was really only looking out for a choice kingdom of his own.

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[xx-popeurban-xx]

ive come to make an announcement

peter the hermit, walter sans avoir and count emicho’s a bitch ass motherfucker. thats right, they took their pious quilly dicks out and pissed all over fucking Hungary, the Byzantines, the Jewish and the Turks, and they said their dicks were

“THIS BIG 8————————————————-D”

and i said: stop killing jewish people, thats disgusting

so im making a callout post on my tumblr, Peter the Hermit you’ve got a small dick - it’s the size of the Holy Lance except way smaller

AND HERE’S WHAT MY DONG LOOKS LIKE.

BOOM

THATS RIGHT BABY, ALL POINTS, NO QUILLS, NO PILLOWS, IT LOOKS LIKE TWO SCEPTRES AND A FERULA.

HE FUCKED EUROPE, SO GUESS WHAT, IM GONNA FUCK ASIA. THATS RIGHT, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET, MY SUPER LASER PISS

EXCEPT IM NOT GONNA PISS ON THE EARTH, IM GONNA GO HIGHER, IM ESTABLISHING OUTREMER AND PISSING ALL OVER THE TURKS.

HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT ALP ARSLAN, I PISSED ON THE TURKS YOU IDIOT

YOU HAVE TWENTY THREE HOURS BEFORE THE PISS

D R O P L E T S

HIT THE REST OF OUTREMER (and the Byzantines too). NOW GET OUT OF MY SIGHT, BEFORE I PISS ON YOU TOO

[kumraalkoalaa]

ölümün başka bir yolu yoktur...

[random-thought-depository]

I've developed a kind of weird relationship with HDG cause it's sufficiently conceptually interesting to me to motivate me to, like, read some of the stories and post about it a little, and it it is adjacent to stuff I find hot and that's part of why it's interesting to me, but it mostly really doesn't actually do much for me as erotica; so far Core Carving is the only HDG fic I've found that's really hot to me.

The HDG fanwork I'd be interested in doing if I had way more resources and skills and more passion for the idea than I actually do wouldn't be anything erotic or kinky, it'd be something like Farya Firaji's ancient/Medieval battle themed symphonies but for a Compact vs. Accord battle or three. So, like, a video like one of these but for a battle in the domestication campaign against the Terrans:

Some ideas:

The song the Nineveh video uses for introducing Heraclius would just straight-up be a very appropriate introductory song for the Terran Accord: "Our father who art in Heaven / Lord, have mercy / ... / Thy kingdom come / Lord, have mercy / ... / Lord, save the kings / and listen to our plight..." Also, make it a Pyrrhic Terran tactical victory, and... Have the Terran lyrics for the part about the most intense and hopeless for the Terrans part of the battle being a sung recitation of Psalm 23 (the "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death..." thing) sung by a chorus with people dropping out of the chorus as the song goes on and repeats once or twice, representing human casualties. Then have the turning point of the battle being the heavy hitter ship of the Affini task force getting a firewall malfunction, and there's a short part of the symphony devoted to that crucial turning point and the Terran half of the lyrics in that part is just the "Give thanks unto the Lord for he is good, alleluiah / To him who alone does great wonders" thing from the Nineveh video sung once. It'd have layers!

Alternate Accord intro idea: something like "Soil of my world... / seas of my world..." with the narrator talking about how their world has been battered and depleted and much has been taken from it but ending it with saying it's theirs so it's dear to them and they will defend it.

Also, Battle Hymn of the Republic or John Brown's Body or something like that showing up as part of the Terran songs.

I don't have many firm ideas what the content of the Affini side would be. I think in terms of Farya Faraji's stuff some of it might be closest in spirit to their intro for Xerxes, like I could see the Affini intro being about the greatness of the Compact and how long they have been its managers and guardians and missionaries. I could also see a lot of the Affini side being expressions of grief for their enemies. I think the "vocals" would be an excellent opportunity to make the Affini seem like actual aliens! Like, make Affini speech sound about as alien as whale song; make the Affini equivalent of songs/poems in the symphony something a human might be able to appreciate without the subtitles in the sense that it'd sound kind of like pretty music to us but it make it not sound at all like a human language.

OK, one possible exception to the "if I ever actually did this project it wouldn't touch much on the erotic/kinky side of the setting" thing:

"...Romanos himself was captured in battle and presented to Alp Arslan. ... Romanos remained unrepentant, asserting that he had merely done what was "possible for a man, and which kings are bound to do, and I have fallen short in nothing. But God has fulfilled his will. And now, do what you wish..." ... ...Alp Arslan asked Romanos what he would do if their situation were reversed and Arslan was imprisoned by the Byzantines. Romanos bluntly answered "The worst!""

Imagine a floret who relates to their Affini like this! I might be interested by a fic about that! Realistically I'm probably not interested enough in the idea to write one, but, like, it's now on my list of premises to potentially use if I ever do write a HDG fic.

[oylesinebirie]

İzmir ve Ege

Jülide ve Alp Arslan

Bartu ve Lal gibi olmuycaksak neden varsin ya