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Seljuk (Modern Turkish: Selçuk Persian: سلجوق Saljūq; also Seldjuk Seldjuq Seljuq; died c. 1038) was the eponymous hero of the Seljuq Turks. He was the son of a certain Toqaq surnamed Temür Yalığ (meaning of the iron bow) and either the chief or an eminent member from the Kınık tribe of the Oghuz Turks. In 985 the Seljuq clan split off from the bulk of the Tokuz-Oghuz a confederacy of nine clans long settled between the Aral and Caspian Seas.