#Alp Arslan

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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

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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

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Alp Arslan, Komandan Terbesar Dalam Sejarah Saljuk

(Arrahmah.id) – Sultan Alp Arslan, penguasa Kerajaan Saljuk Besar, yang mengalahkan tentara Bizantium di Manzikert dan membuka gerbang Anatolia untuk Turki pada 1071, menonjol dengan kepahlawanan, pandangan ke depan, dan strategi perangnya yang unggul selain kenegarawanannya. Sultan Alp Arslan adalah Sultan kedua Kerajaan Saljuk Besar. Ia Lahir dengan nama ‘Adud Al-Dawla Abu Syuja’ Muhammad bin…

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herhangi bir neden duymadan bir seye bagli olmadan

sırf sensin diye cok seviyorum🤍

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battle of manzikert my favorite to learn about ever.

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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…

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Malazgirt zəfəri münasibəti ilə bütün Türk dünyasını təbrik edirəm.

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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.

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

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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.

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İzmir ve Ege

Jülide ve Alp Arslan

Bartu ve Lal gibi olmuycaksak neden varsin ya