Seljukian

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seljukian \Sel*juk"i*an\, a.
     Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced
     Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to
     that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded
     by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the
     10th to the 13th century. --J. H. Newman.


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