Seljook
English
Proper noun
Seljook
- Alternative spelling of Seljuk
- 1833, Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H.G.O. Dwight in Armenia:
- The sons of Seljook, when sultáns of a vast empire, retained the wandering habits of their ancestor, who pitched his shepherd's tent upon the banks of the Jihon.
- 1838, Historical causes and effects:
- After subjecting the Arabians, they founded a vast empire, under the name of the Seljooks, or Seljoukians, so called from the name of Seljook, the first distinguished chief of this people.
- 1853, The Encyclopædia Britannica:
- His successors Alp Arslan and Malek Shah extended name of their renowned chief Seljook, who, being banished the empire transmitted to them by Togrul Beg.