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001			ASIN1845117034
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008			131212s2008 xxu eng d
020			_a1845117034 (hardcover) _c$44.00
020			_a9781845117030 (hardcover)
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082	0	4	_a956.1014 _bFRE 2008
100	1		_aFreely, John.
245	1	0	_aStorm on horseback : _bthe seljuk warriors of turkey / _cJohn Freely.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bI. B. Tauris, _c2008.
300			_a304 p. ; _c24 cm.
520			_aStorm on Horseback is both a dramatic history and, uniquely, a traveller’s guide to the extraordinary heritage of the Seljuks in Turkey. Who are the Turks and where did they come from? The successive empires that they created in a whirlwind of conquests from China to North Africa led one chronicler to call the waves of mounted Turkic warriors a "storm on horseback."  This is the story of the Seljuk Turks of Anatolia who created the first Turkish state. The Seljuk period--when Anatolia, which had been for the most part Greek and Christian and became predominantly Turkic and Muslim--was one of the great cultural transformations in Middle Eastern history. Here, John Freely takes the reader from Istanbul throughout eastern Anatolia, describing the surpassingly beautiful monuments with which the Seljuks adorned their cities, as well as the music, dance, prose and poetry of the period. Though the Seljuks themselves did not survive as rulers, their cultural heritage lives on in the deepest roots of Turkish life, just as their magnificent monuments still adorn the landscape of Turkey.
650		0	_aCivilization
650		0	_aSeljuks
650		0	_aTravel
650		0	_aTurkey
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1845117034/chopaconline-20
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