Convert 20 Dhuʾl-Qaʿdah 1446 AH to Gregorian

The Battle of Manzikert · 463 AH

The Seljuk Sultan Alp Arslan, with about twenty thousand, defeated the army of the Byzantine emperor Romanos — over two hundred thousand — and captured the emperor himself, opening Anatolia to Islam and the Turks.

• Dhuʾl-Qaʿdah is one of the four sacred months whose sanctity God magnified.
• Day 20 of 29 in Dhuʾl-Qaʿdah 1446 AH — the second third of the month.

One of the four sacred months; pilgrims begin making their way toward the Holy Land