Seljuks Rule of Khorasan
TurkmenistanAfter the Battle of Dandanaqan, Turkmens employed Khorasanians and set up a Persian bureaucracy to administer their new polity with Toghrul as its nominal overlord. By 1046, Abbasid caliph al-Qa'im had sent Tughril a diploma recognizing Seljuk rule over Khorasan.