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Death of Rukn al-Din Sulayman II of Rum

وفاة ركن الدين بن قلج أرسلان

c. 1204 CE · 600 AH

Konya

Rukn al-Din Sulayman II, Seljuk sultan of Rum, died on 6 Dhu'l-Qa'da — his son Kaykhusraw had ruled before and now returned to the throne 1.

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1190120012101220 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Konya

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Summary

Rukn al-Din Sulayman ibn Qilij Arslan, lord of the lands of Rum, died on the sixth of Dhu al-Qa'da. His son Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw had ruled before him, and then the kingship returned to Rukn al-Din. 1

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Konya
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Suleiman II, Sultan of Rum· Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw I

People and things also explored

Kaykhusraw I's restoration to the Rum Sultanate (600 AH)· Rukn al-Din takes Malatya from his brother — and Erzurum· كيكاوس الأول· Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw I· Suleiman II, Sultan of Rum· Konya

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 292
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Kaykhusraw I's restoration to the Rum Sultanate (600 AH)

Rajab 600: Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw's astonishing restoration — the exile who had been snubbed at Aleppo, pensioned in Constantinople and married to a patrician's daughter before the Frankish sack, was called back by the Oghuz Turks on his brother's death, routed before Konya — until the people of Aksaray rose crying his name and Konya followed: 'in one hour God gathered the whole kingdom for him'.