Shah-i Arman of Akhlat

The Armenian shahs of Akhlat, a state founded by Sukman al-Qutbi in 493 AH (about 1100 CE). It was the strongest of the Seljuk-era Armenian principalities, and it fell in 642 AH at the hands of Hulagu. ^{1 2}

The source says that most of its people were Armenians, and that it represented only a fifth of the lands of Armenia. ²

They were succeeded by Zahir al-Din Ibrahim Shah Arman, Ahmad, Nasir al-Din Sukman II, Sayf al-Din Baktamur, and Badr al-Din Aqsunqur. The family of the Banu Sukman died out in 581 AH, and rule passed to the mamluk Bek Timur. ²

The Ayyubids took the land in 604 AH. al-Malik al-Adil set his son al-Awhad as emir over Akhlat, then his brother al-Ashraf. Al-Muzaffar Ghazi was the last of the Ayyubid kings there, and the kingdom fell in his time in 642 AH with Hulagu's capture of it. ²