All Modern-Day Countries Ever Controlled by the Seljuks

If you've watched History of the Entire World, I guess by Bill Wurtz, there is a decent chance you remember the "It's the Seljuk Turks - aah!" meme. That was quite funny wasn't it? But what do we really know about them? How powerful was their empire? Below is a map of all modern-day countries that were fully or partially under their control, can you name them all?

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Includes vassal states

While this probably is not perfect, this map should be a rough representation of how far the Seljuks have reached

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Countries

Afghanistan

Armenia

Azerbaijan

China

Georgia

Countries

India

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Jordan

Countries

Kazakhstan

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Lebanon

Oman

Countries

Pakistan

Palestine

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Syria

Countries

Tajikistan

Turkey

Turkmenistan

United Arab Emirates

Uzbekistan

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34 Comments

Level 65

Mar 8, 2021

Great quiz, but how did you color the other countries black? When I do it, they are black on inkscape but when I upload the quiz to jetpunk they are yellow.

Level 75

Mar 8, 2021

You have to remove the country class from them, and to make it dark gray (not black c;) you should either give them the color code 888888 (in hex) or by giving them the disputed class. As for light gray, it's cccccc in hex and uses the surrounding class

Level 54

Mar 8, 2021

Nice quiz

Level 75

Mar 8, 2021

Thanks :D

Level 60

Mar 13, 2021

when you;ve never heard of it but still get all the answers correct

Level 75

Mar 13, 2021

Hey the map is based on modern-day countries after all ;D

+32

Level 54

Mar 27, 2021

It's a bird! It's a Plane! It's the Seljuk Turks AAH!

Level 75

Mar 27, 2021

Lmao

Level 64

Mar 27, 2021

How did you do that?

Level 54

Mar 28, 2021

Check out Pandora49 's html blog part 2

+17

Level 52

Aug 3, 2021

It's a bird! It's a plane!

It's the Seljuk Turks AAH!

Said the Byzantine Empire

who's getting so small

it almost doesn't

exist anymore

Level 71

Apr 1, 2021

Enjoyed the Bill Wurtz plug :)

Level 75

May 13, 2021

Level 54

May 13, 2021

Teacher: Hey little kid, tell me the history of the world, and if you miss one thing, you get a zero

Student:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs

Level 75

May 13, 2021

Ah yes, wonderful

~~Also which teacher calls their students "little kid"~~

Level 54

May 16, 2021

~~The ones I make up lol, I have a terrible sense of creativity~~

Anyway, lemme change this to something related to the quiz

Teacher: Summarize what happened Between Byzantines and the Seljuks

Student: (In Singsong voice) It's a bird It's a Plane, It's the Seljuk Turks

Byzantine: AAAAAAAAAH!

Student: Hey Seljuks, think can you can conquer the Byzantines

Seljuks: Yup.

The Turks gobbled up Byzantine somehow, the end.

Level 75

May 16, 2021

They must've had a wonderful breakfast

Level 69

May 31, 2021

2:02 remaining, everyone seems to have found this quite easy

Level 62

Sep 28, 2021

its a bird its a plane its the seljuk turks

Level 59

Oct 3, 2021

Great quiz Bread!

Level 75

Oct 3, 2021

Thanks!

Level 65

Oct 14, 2021

Great quiz, did they really stop exactly at the current Israel-Egypt border?

Level 75

Oct 16, 2021

I can't remember, I plan to update the map sometime either way so it probably doesn't matter for now

Level 77

Oct 26, 2021

lol for ages when the page was loading only afghanistan and greyed-out albania were rendered, and i thought this entire quiz was a meme to show how pathetic the seljuk empire was. turns out they did a bit better than that

Level 58

Apr 6, 2022

Amazing!

Level 59

Feb 6, 2023

24/24, Great Quiz

Level 60

May 1, 2023

Writing a paper on the history of the Middle East right now and a large portion of it is on these Seljuks. Nice little writing break for me. Thanks!

Level 66

May 13, 2023

Congratulations in advance for the upcoming feature!

Level 59

May 15, 2023

Congradulations for the feature!

Level 79

May 15, 2023

I know these are probably difficult to make. The tiny part of Saudi Arabia bordering Kuwait does not light up when you enter Saudi Arabia as an answer--only when you enter Kuwait.

Level 67

Jun 19, 2023

Great quiz - reminds me of that old story about the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan who was said to have had moustaches so long he had to tie them behind his head when he went out to hunt.

Level 59

Jun 19, 2023

Italic

Level 48

Oct 2, 2023

what

Level 45

Oct 13, 2023

Wow, 91.2% got a 100, I think that's the highest rate I've seen on here.