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سليمان بن قتلمش السلجوقي

سليمان بن قتلمش السلجوقي

The Seljuk lord of Qonya and Aqsaray who took Antioch from the Romans in 477 after three hundred and nineteen years 1.

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Sulayman ibn Qutlumush the Seljuk, lord of Konya and Aksaray, one of the Seljuks of Rum. He marched with his armies to Syria in the year 477 AH and took Antioch, which had been in Byzantine hands since the year 358 AH 2.

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Qilij Arslan I ibn Sulayman
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Sultanate of Rum
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Sulayman ibn Qutlumush takes Antioch from the Romans

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  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 651
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.651
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Qilij Arslan I ibn Sulayman

Qilij Arslan ibn Sulayman ibn Qutulmush, Seljuk sultan of Rum; succeeding his father over Konya, Aqsaray and the Rum lands, he fought the Frankish hosts crossing his country toward the Levantine coast in 490 AH, then took Mosul, Diyar Bakr and their districts and sat on the throne — marching from Mosul against Jawali Saqawa's siege of al-Rahba, his host deserted him, he charged Jawali in person, was beaten back by Jawali's men and threw himself into the Khabur where he drowned; his son Mas'ud took the Rum lands.