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Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika'il (Persian: ابوطالبْ محمد طغرل بن میکائیل), better known as Tughril (طغرل / طغریل; also spelled Toghril / Tughrul), was a Turkoman chieftain, who founded the Seljuk Empire, ruling from 1037 to 1063.

Tughril united many Turkoman warriors of the Central Asian steppes into a confederacy of tribes and led them in conquest of Khorasan and eastern Persia. He would later establish the Seljuk Sultanate after conquering Persia and taking the Abbasid capital of Baghdad from the Buyids in 1055. Tughril relegated the Abbasid Caliphs to state figureheads and took command of the caliphate's armies in military offensives against the Byzantine Empire and the Fatimids in an effort to expand his empire's borders and unite the Islamic world.

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👉 Tughril in the context of Seljuk Empire

The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. The empire spanned a total area of 3.9 million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles) from Anatolia and the Levant in the west to the Hindu Kush in the east, and from Central Asia in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, and it spanned the time period 1037–1308, though Seljuk rule beyond the Anatolian peninsula ended in 1194.

The Seljuk Empire was founded in 1037 by Tughril (990–1063) and his brother Chaghri (989–1060), both of whom co-ruled over its territories; there are indications that the Seljuk leadership otherwise functioned as a triumvirate and thus included Musa Yabghu, the uncle of the aforementioned two.

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Tughril in the context of List of Seljuk sultans of Rûm

Tughril in the context of List of Seljuk sultans of Rûm

The following is a list of the Seljuk Sultans of Rum, from 1077 to 1307. The sultans of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm were descended from Arslan Isra'il, son of the warlord Seljuk. The Seljuk Empire was founded by Chaghri and Tughril, sons of Arslan's brother Mikail ibn Seljuk.

Suleiman I, son of Qutalmish, 1077–1086
Abu'l Qasim (self-declared, Nicaea), appointed by Suleiman ibn Qutulmish, 1084 (Not a member of House of Seljuk)
Kilij Arslan I, son of Suleiman ibn Kutalmish, 1092–1109
Malik Shah, son of Kilij Arslan, 1109–1116
Mesud I, son of Kilij Arslan, 1116–1156
Kilij Arslan II, son of Mesud I, 1156–1192
Kaykhusraw I, son of Kilij Arslan II, 1192–1197
Suleiman II, son of Kilij Arslan II, 1197–1204
Kilij Arslan III, son of Suleiman II, 1204–1205
Kaykhusraw I (second rule), 1205–1211
Kaykaus I, son of Kaykhusraw I, 1211–1220
Kayqubad I, son of Kaykhusraw I, 1220–1237
Kaykhusraw II, son of Kayqubad I, 1237–1246
Kaykaus II, son of Kaykhusraw II (sole rule) 1246–1248
Kaykaus II (joint rule), 1248–1259 (with Kilij Arslan IV, 1248–1259, with Kayqubad II, 1249–1257)
Kilij Arslan IV, son of Kaykhusraw II (joint rule), 1248–1259 (with Kaykaus II, 1248–1259, with Kayqubad II, 1249–1257)
Kayqubad II, son of Kaykhusraw II (joint rule), 1249–1257 (with Kaykaus II and Kilij Arslan IV)
Kilij Arslan IV (sole rule), 1259–1265
Kaykhusraw III, son of Kilij Arslan IV, 1265–1282
Mesud II, son of Kaykaus II, 1282–1284
Kayqubad III, son of Faramurz (son of Kaykaus II), 1284
Mesud II (second rule), 1284–1293
Kayqubad III (second rule), 1293–1294
Mesud II (third rule), 1294–1301
Kayqubad III (third rule), 1301–1303
Mesud II (fourth rule), 1303–1307
Mesud III (1307-1308)
Kilij Arslan V ( Claimant Sultan 1308-1318)

The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum dissolved into many Anatolian Beyliks, one of them being the future Ottoman Empire in 1307.

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Tughril in the context of "Seljuk Empire"

⭐ In the context of the Seljuk Empire, what was the unusual characteristic of its early leadership structure, beyond the co-rule of Tughril and his brother?

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Tughril in the context of List of Seljuk sultans of Rûm