Malazgirt or Malâzgird (Kurdish: Melezgir;[2] Armenian: Մանազկերտ, romanized: Manazkert; Medieval Greek: Ματζιέρτη, romanized: Matziértē[3]), historically known as Manzikert (Medieval Greek: Μαντζικέρτ), is a town in Muş Province in Turkey.

In the city, there is the Malazgirt Castle, for which the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk state fought dozens of times.

According to Movses Khorenatsi, Manzikert was founded by Manaz, one of the sons of Hayk, the legendary and eponymous patriarch and progenitor of the Armenians.

[7] The lands around Manzikert belonged to the Manavazyans, an Armenian nakharar family which claimed descent from Manaz, until AD 333, when King Khosrov III Arshakuni of Armenia ordered that all members of the family be put to the sword.

Manzikert was a fortified town,[8] and served as an important trading center located in the canton of Apahunik' in the Turuberan province of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia.

In one of the most decisive defeats in Byzantine history, the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan defeated and captured Emperor Romanus Diogenes, which led to the ethnic and religious transformation of Armenia and Anatolia and the establishment of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and later the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.

[10] The basic design is a curtain wall with small semicircular towers projecting at intervals.

[14] Malazgirt's climate is continental, with warm to hot and dry summers, very cold winters, and rainy springs.