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Qal'at al-Rum (Rumkale)

قلعة الروم

A strong fortress on the Euphrates beside the fortress of al-Bira. It had been a seat of the Catholicos of the Armenians and was under Tatar rule. The sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Khalil besieged it and set up catapults against it until it was taken after twenty-five days, in Rajab 691 AH 1.

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An impregnable fortress on the Euphrates neighbor to Qal'at al-Bira, seat of the Armenian catholicos under Tatar suzerainty; Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Khalil besieged it, set mangonels on it, and it was taken after twenty-five days in Rajab 691 1.

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The fall of Qal'at al-Rum, 691

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al-Malik al-Ashraf Salah al-Din Khalil ibn Qalawun· The fall of Qal'at al-Rum, 691

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 729
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al-Malik al-Ashraf Salah al-Din Khalil ibn Qalawun

Qalawun's son; he raised the sidelined caliph — no deed ever asked of him — whose Jumu'a khutba named him to rule and whose jihad khutba urged Baghdad's retaking. Killed at Turuja, Muharram 693.