SELJUK

'Saljūq Beg' (Arabic: السلاجقة, Turkish: ''Selçuk''; also 'Seljuk', 'Seldjuk', 'Seldjuq', 'Seljuq') was the ''beg'' (chieftain) of a branch of Oghuz Turks known as the 'Qýnýq'. He was the eponymous ancestor of the 'Seljuq dynasty'.
Tradition says Saljūq had four sons: Mikaīl, Yonus, Mūsā and Arslān. Saljūq's grandson Toghrül, son of Mikaīl conquered Khorasan in the mid-11th century, and later advanced into the western parts of Persian.
According to some sources, Saljūq began his career as an officer in the Khazar army.^[1]
The Seljuqs expanded from Aegean Sea to Central Asia and the Caucassus. Under Alp Arslan they took over the control of the Islamic world from the Abbasids. In the year 1071 Sultan Alp Arslan defeated the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes and the Seljuks began to conquer Anatolia.

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1. Rice, Tamara Talbot. The Seljuks in Asia Minor. Thames and Hudson, London, 1961. pp.18-19.