{
  "g": "h,empire,asia",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Seljuk Empire",
  "now": "turkey",
  "years": "1037–1194",
  "id": "seljuk",
  "index": "c/turkey:1037",
  "title": "Flag of the Great Seljuk Empire",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "blue",
      "hex": "#0099cc",
      "cmyk": "100/25/0/20",
      "note": "Traditional Turkic sky-blue (kök)."
    },
    {
      "color": "black",
      "hex": "#000000",
      "note": "The tamga of the Kınık Oğuz tribe — a black bow drawn with an arrow on its string — forms the emblem."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Great Seljuk Empire (1037–1194) was a Sunni Muslim Turco-Persian empire stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia\n - **Construction:** a sky-blue field charged with the tamga of the Kınık tribe — a stylised bow drawn with an arrow on its string — from which the Seljuk dynasty claimed descent\n - Note: no single canonical flag survives from the period; this depiction is a modern reconstruction from the Turkish \"16 Great Turkic Empires\" series, drawing on Seljuk coinage, tamgas, and seals",
  "flag": "empires/seljuk.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Seljuk Empire",
    "officialName": "Great Seljuk Empire",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- The Seljuks broke the Byzantine army at Manzikert in 1071, opening Anatolia to Turkic settlement\n - The Kınık bow-and-arrow tamga was the clan mark of the Seljuk founders Tuğrul and Çağrı\n - The empire fragmented into successor sultanates, including the Sultanate of Rum that preceded the Ottomans",
  "_name": "Seljuk Empire",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "seljuk"
}