The history of the Turks is unclear to this day, but if Chinese sources and the myth of the wolf are to be believed, we begin to follow it during the Tan Tan Confederation of Tribes. Back then, the Turks joined the Tan Tan Confederation as a nomadic group of 500 families who acted as blacksmiths. Somewhere around 552 we meet the Turks again, but this time in their own empire. The Turkish Empire went through various turbulent periods until it's disappearance in 745, after which many Turkish tribes sought salvation in the west. The Oguzs were also one of these tribes, and they are important to us because of the Seljuk dynasty that originated from that branch of the Turkish tribes. We follow the Seljuk dynasty from the end of the 9th century until it's collapse in 1194. Of course, in this branch of the dynasty we do not include the exiled part of the family that later founded “sultanate“ Rum. Some of the most important rulers were Togrul I., Alp Arslan, Malikshah and Sanjar. Togrul I was the first sultan, and Alp Arslan the first sultan characterized as a true leader of Muslims. Malikshah and Sanjar were remembered as long-lived whose abilities were credited with uniting all sides of the Empire. After Sanjar's death, the Great Seljuk Empire disappeared, and later rulers unsuccessfully tried to merge the fragmented parts of the former empire.