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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v • d • e Malazgirt in Muş Province (in the East Anatolia region) of Turkey

Urban districts	Muş

Rural districts	Bulanık - Hasköy - Korkut - Malazgirt - Varto

Regions	Provinces

Aegean	Afyonkarahisar - Aydın - Denizli - İzmir - Kütahya - Manisa - Muğla - Uşak

Black Sea	Amasya - Artvin - Bartın - Bayburt - Bolu - Çorum - Düzce - Giresun - Gümüşhane - Karabük - Kastamonu - Ordu - Rize - Samsun - Sinop - Tokat - Trabzon - Zonguldak

Central Anatolia	Aksaray - Ankara - Çankırı - Eskişehir - Karaman - Kayseri - Kırıkkale - Kırşehir - Konya - Nevşehir - Niğde - Sivas - Yozgat

Eastern Anatolia	Ağrı - Ardahan -Bingöl - Bitlis - Elazığ - Erzincan - Erzurum - Hakkâri - Iğdır - Kars - Malatya - Muş - Siirt - Tunceli - Van

Marmara	Balıkesir - Bilecik - Bursa - Çanakkale - Edirne - Istanbul - Kırklareli - Kocaeli - Sakarya - Tekirdağ - Yalova

Mediterranean	Adana - Antalya- Burdur - Hatay - Isparta - Kahramanmaraş - Mersin - Osmaniye

Southeastern Anatolia	Adıyaman - Batman - Diyarbakır - Gaziantep - Kilis - Mardin - Şanlıurfa - Şırnak