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Which Seljuq ruler made Isfahan the capital of his domains?
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Masjed-e Emām (“Imam Mosque”), Isfahan, Iran.
Toghrïl Beg, the Turkish conqueror and founder of the Seljuq dynasty, made Isfahan the capital of his domains in the mid-11th century.1