After a series of victories, Tughril conquered Baghdad, the seat of the caliphate, and ousted the last of the Buyid rulers. Tughril is declared sultan (of Great Seljuk Sultanate) by the caliph Al-Qa'im. Like the Buyids, the Seljuks kept the Abbasid caliphs as figureheads.
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