Arising from Oguz tribesmen on the shores of Lake Baikal, this  people adopted Sunni Islam and conquered Persia before being  welcomed in Baghdad in 1055 to evict the Shi'ite Buyid dynasty,  where their leader Togril Beg was proclaimed sultan. Togril and  his successors, Alp Arslan and Malik-Shah, extended the sultanate  from Afghanistan to Asia Minor, but their empire soon dissolved  into minor principalities, and they w
Arising from Oguz tribesmen on the shores of Lake Baikal, this  people adopted Sunni Islam and conquered Persia before being  welcomed in Baghdad in 1055 to evict the Shi'ite Buyid dynasty,  where their leader Togril Beg was proclaimed sultan. Togril and  his successors, Alp Arslan and Malik-Shah, extended the sultanate  from Afghanistan to Asia Minor, but their empire soon dissolved  into minor principalities, and they were finally destroyed by the  Mongol invasion. FTP, name this people who were succeeded after  the Mongols by their "cousins", the Ottomans.
Arising from Oguz tribesmen on the shores of Lake Baikal, this  people adopted Sunni Islam and conquered Persia before being  welcomed in Baghdad in 1055 to evict the Shi'ite Buyid dynasty,  where their leader Togril Beg was proclaimed sultan.
{Seljuk} Turks