the salchik empire was a turkish sunni muslim empire originating from the connect tribe of august turks at the time of its greatest extent the saljic empire controlled the west area stretching from western anatolia and the levant in the west to the hindukush in the east and from central asia in the north to the persian gulf in the south the seljuk empire was founded in 1037 by togrul in his brother chara from their homelands near the rlc saljux advanced first into horizon then into mainland persia before eventually conquering baghdad and eastern anatolia the seljuks won the battle of mexico in 1071 and then conquered most of the rest of anatolia resting it from the byzantine empire this was the impetuses for the first crusade the salching empire began to decline in the 1140s and by 1194 had been supplanted by the kurezmian empire seljuk gave his name to both empire and the sergeant dynasty the saljic empire united the fractured political landscape of the eastern islamic world and played a key role in both the first crusade and second crusade the celtics also played an important part in the creation and expansion of multiple art forms during the period which they had influenced highly persianized in culture and language the celtics also played important role for the development of turco persian tradition even exporting persian culture to anatolia the settlement of turkic tribes in the northwestern peripheral parts of the empire for the strategic military purpose fending of invasions from the neighboring states led to the progressive turkisization of the areas