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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: " What would you do if I was brought before you as a prisoner?
: 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.
:“ 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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When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.
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.
The last years of Bagrat's reign coincided with what Professor David Marshall Lang described as " the final débacle of eastern Christendom " — the Battle of Manzikert — in which Alp Arslan dealt a crushing defeat to the Byzantine army, capturing the emperor Romanos IV, who soon died in misery.

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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.

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Alp Arslan's conquest of Anatolia from the Byzantines is also seen as one of the pivotal precursors to the launch of the crusades.
The lowest, and northernmost, which is that seen from the Ober Sand Alp, is called Sandgipfel ( 3, 390 m ).
On the west side of the Tödi lies the Sand Glacier or Sandfirn, which descends towards the Sand Alp from the dividing ridge forming the pass to the south.
* In 2009, the Brooklyn band Yeasayer debuted the single " Ambling Alp " from their forthcoming album Odd Blood.
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.
The JB is under the management of the Jungfraubahn Holding company, which also comprises the Wengener Alp Bahn ( WAB ) which links to the JB at Kleine Scheidegg and has two routes down the mountain, to Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald, from where the Berner Oberland Bahn ( BOB ) connects to the Federal Railways at Interlaken.
The Yeasayer song, " Ambling Alp ," from their 2010 album Odd Blood references Carnera by his nickname in the title and second verse.
In January 1074, their armies met near Hamadan, Kawurd's troops consisting of the traditional Turkmen elements from Alp Arslan's army, while Malik's consisted of ghulams and contingents of Kurdish and Arab troops.
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.
From the buttress it was necessary to descend a little in order to reach the Guggi Glacier, which could be ascended without meeting serious obstacles as far as a considerable plateau, scarcely seen from the Wengern Alp.
This was the last serious obstacle: a moderate slope of névé, unbroken by crevasses, then led up to the summit of the pass, which was attained in 9 hours from the Wengern Alp.
) of slopes, and its Hotel Alp is only 50 meters ( 165 ft .) from the slopes.
The earliest extant mention of the term is for a ruler of the North Caucasian Huns in the 680s, referred to in Christian sources from Caucasian Albania as Alp Ilutuer.

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