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‘The Seljuks of Rum (1077-1278[ce] and the Atabeg Dynasties.

The Turkish absorption of Anatolia (modern Turkey) into its hegemony was gradual, and proceeded at two levels. At the top the Great Seljuk Alp Arslan (1063-72[ce]) destroyed the Armenian Kingdom at Ani in 1065[ce] and defeated the Byzantine Emperor Romanus Diogenes at Manzikert in 1071[ce], marking the permanent loss to** Byzantium of Eastern Anatolia. On the demographic level, the Turkman Nomad tribes which provided the rank and file of the Seljuk army found the high tablelands of central Anatolia congenial to their way of life and started to settle. This explains the extent to which local building traditions were accepted by the Seljuks in Anatolia, in stone structure and sculpture, in which Armenian influence is clearly seen in octagonal form and conical roofs and above all in the rise of relief carving to decorate the outside of buildings.’

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***– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3]: 441

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