Alp Arslan ( ālp arslān ; ālb ārslān ; 1029 – 15 December 1072 ) was the third sultan of the Seljuq dynasty and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty.

His real name was Muhammad bin Da ' ud Chaghri, and for his military prowess, personal valour, and fighting skills he obtained the surname Alp Arslan, which means " Heroic Lion " in Turkish.

Alp Arslan led Seljuq Turks to victory against the Byzantine Empire | Byzantines in 1071.

Alp Arslan and his uncle Kutalmish both contested this succession.

Alp Arslan defeated Kutalmish for the throne and succeeded on 27 April 1064 as sultan of Great Seljuq, and thus became sole monarch of Persia from the river Oxus to the Tigris.

In 1068, en route to Syria, Alp Arslan Oush invaded the Byzantine Empire.

At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.

Emperor Romanos IV was himself taken prisoner and conducted into the presence of Alp Arslan, who treated him with generosity, and, terms of peace having been agreed to, dismissed him, loaded with presents and respectfully attended by a military guard.

: Alp Arslan: " My punishment is far heavier.

Alp Arslan humiliating Emperor Romanos IV after the Battle of Manzikert.

Domestic affairs were handled by his able vizier, Nizam al-Mulk, the founder of the administrative organization which characterized and strengthened the sultanate during the reigns of Alp Arslan and his son, Malik Shah.

This type of military fiefdom enabled the nomadic Turks to draw on the resources of the sedentary Persians, Turks and other established cultures within the Seljuq realm, and allowed Alp Arslan to field a huge standing army, without depending on tribute from conquest to pay his soldiery.

The dominion of Alp Arslan after Manzikert extended over much of western Asia.

Alp Arslan, who took great pride in his reputation as the foremost archer of his time, motioned to his guards not to interfere and drew his bow, but his foot slipped, the arrow glanced aside and he received the assassin's dagger in his breast.

Alp Arslan died four days later from this wound on 25 November 1072 in his 42nd year, and was taken to Merv to be buried next to his father Chaghri Beg.

:“ O those who saw the sky-high grandeur of Alp Arslan, behold!

As he lay dying, Alp Arslan whispered to his son that his vanity had killed him.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

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In 1895, aged 19, he met and married Harriet Elizabeth Alp and settled with her in Burgh St. Peter near Lowestoft, where they had two sons and a daughter, including Thomas Crisp Jr., who would be with his father on the day he won the Victoria Cross.

The song makes reference to Louis ' boxing career and his famous rivalry with Schmeling in the first person, with the lyrics such as " Oh, Max Schmeling was a formidable foe / The Ambling Alp was too, at least that ’ s what I ’ m told / But if you learn one thing, you ’ ve learned it well / In June, you must give fascists hell.

Nizam al-Mulk was the first to do this when he was appointed vizier to the sultan Alp Arslan.

From 1063, he served the Seljuqs as vizier and remained in that position throughout the reigns of Alp Arslan ( 1063 – 1072 ) and Malik Shah I ( 1072 – 1092 ).

* the siyâsetnâme ( سياست نامه ), a kind of political treatise describing the functionings of state and offering advice for rulers, an early Seljuk example of which is the 11th-century Siyāsatnāma, written in Persian by Nizam al-Mulk, vizier to the Seljuk rulers Alp Arslan and Malik Shah I

Alp Tigin and Abu al-Hasan Simjuri, as Samanid generals, competed with each other for the governorship of Khorasan and control of the Samanid empire by placing on the throne emirs they could dominate when ' Abd al-Malik I dies.

Mansur I was installed, and Alp Tigin prudently retired to south of the Hindu Kush where he founded the Ghaznavid fortunes when he established himself at Ghazna ( modern Ghazni Province ) in 962 CE.

When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.

When Romanos IV was defeated and captured by Alp Arslan of the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert in August 1071, Michael VII remained in the background, while the initiative was taken by his uncle John Doukas and his tutor Michael Psellos.

It was also later effectively used by Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of Walaja in 633, by Alp Arslan at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 under name of Crescent Tactic, at Battle of Mohács by Süleyman the Magnificent in 1526 and by Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld at the Battle of Fraustadt in 1706.

He also suffered invasions from Alp Arslan in Asia Minor in 1064, resulting in the loss of the Armenian capital and the Uzes in the Balkans in 1065, while Belgrade was lost to the Hungarians.

Primo Carnera (; October 26, 1906 – June 29, 1967 ) was an Italian boxer, nicknamed the Ambling Alp, who became the world heavyweight champion.

Jalāl al-Dawlah Malik-shāh ( Persian:, Modern Turkish: Melikşah, or simply Malik Shāh ) was born in 1055 and succeeded his father, Alp Arslan, as the Seljuq Sultan in 1072, and reigned until his death in 1092.

Alp Arslan's victory at Manzikert in 1071 was followed up by a Turkish invasion of Anatolia.

In 1071, after Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes was defeated by Sultan Alp Arslan, a palace coup was staged before he could return to Constantinople.

The dynasty was founded by Sebuktigin, upon his succession to rule Ghazna ( modern-day Ghazni Province in Afghanistan ) after his father-in-law, Alp Tigin, who was a break-away ex-general of the Samanids from Balk, north of the Hindu Kush in Khorasan.

He died childless in the city of Rey in modern Iran and was succeeded by his nephew Suleiman which was contested by Alp Arslan, both of them sons of his brother Chaghri.