Seljuk (warlord)

Seljuk
Bey
Diedc. 1007 or 1009 (age 100/107)
Jand
Burial
Unknown, possibly near Jand, Kazakhstan
Issue
HouseSeljuk dynasty
FatherTuqaq
Religion
  • Previously: possibly Judaism or Nestorian Christian
  • Later: Sunni Islam

Seljuk (died c.1007 or 1009), variously romanized, was an Oghuz Turk warlord. He was the eponymous founder of the Seljuk dynasty and the namesake of Selçuk, the modern town near the ruins of ancient Ephesus in Turkey.