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Mengujek Gazi
Mengujek Gazi was a Turkmen commander who founded the Mengujekid principality in eastern Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. He took Erzincan, Kemah, Divriği and Şebinkarahisar on the upper Euphrates. His dynasty held the region between the Danishmendids, the Saltukids and the Byzantine and Georgian frontiers until the Seljuks of Rum absorbed it in the 13th century.
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