Malazgirt
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Malazgirt (also Malâzgird; Armenian: Մանզիկերտ, Manzikert) is a town in Muş Province in eastern Turkey, with a population of 23,697 (year 2000).
Manzikert was an important trading center of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia and then the Byzantine Empire. In 1054, the Seljuk Turks made an attempt to capture the city but were repulsed by Basil Apocapes, a Byzantine general of Armeno-Georgian origin.
The Battle of Manzikert was fought near the town in August of 1071. In one of the worst defeats in Byzantine history, the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan defeated and captured Emperor Romanus Diogenes. The Turkish victory led to the ethnic and religious transformation of Anatolia, the establishment of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, and later the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.
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