Editing Sultanate of Rum

{{short description|Turkish state in central Anatolia from 1077 to 1308}}
{{Infobox former country
| conventional_long_name = Sultanate of Rum
| native_name            = {{native name|tr|Anadolu Selçuklu Devleti}}
<br />{{native name|fa|سلجوقیان روم}}<br/>{{lang|fa-Latn|Saljūqiyān-i Rūm}}
| status                 = {{Plainlist|
*Independent sultanate (1077–1243)
*[[Mongol Empire|Mongol]] vassal (1243–1256)
*[[Ilkhanate|Ilkhanid]] vassal (1256–1308)
}}
| government_type        = {{ubli|[[Hereditary monarchy]]|[[Triumvirate|Triarchy]] (1249–1254)|[[Diarchy]] (1257–1262)}}
| year_start             = 1077
| year_end               = 1308
| p1                     = Byzantine Empire under the Doukas dynasty{{!}}Byzantine Empire
| p2                     = Seljuk Empire
| p3                     = Danishmends
| p4                     = Mengujekids
| p5                     = Saltukids
| p6                     = Artuqids
| s1                     = Anatolian beyliks
| s2                     = Ilkhanate|<!-- Please do not put the flag-based succession box here: the successor states are far too numerous and none possess verifiable flags.-->
| event_pre              = [[Battle of Manzikert]]
| date_pre               = 1071
| event_start            = [[Seljuk Empire#Division of empire|Division from the Seljuk Empire]]
| event1                 = [[Battle of Köse Dağ]]
| date_event1            = 1243
| event_end              = [[Karamanids|Karamanid conquest]]
| image_flag             = Double-headed eagle of the Sultanate of Rum.svg <!-- The flag was not recorded. -->
| flag_size              = 100px
| flag_type              = [[Double-headed eagle#Adoption in the Turkic and Muslim world|Double-headed eagle used by the Rum Seljuks]]
| flag_border            = no
| image_coat             = Seljuk Lion and Sun.svg
| coa_size               = 100px
| symbol_type_article    = Lion and Sun#Iranian and Turkic dynasties
| symbol_type            = Lion and Sun adopted by Kaykhusraw II
| image_map              = Sultanate of Rûm.svg
| image_map_size         = 285px
| image_map_caption      = Expansion of the Sultanate, {{circa|1100–1240}}
  {{legend|#459eb8ff|Sultanate of Rum in 1100}}
  {{legend|#7dbcd0ff|Conquered from the Danishmendids up to 1174}}
  {{legend|#95c7d7ff|Conquered from the Byzantines up to 1182}}
  {{legend|#cde6ecff|Other conquests until 1243}}
| capital                = {{plainlist|
* [[Nicaea]] ([[İznik]])
* (1077–1097)
* [[Konya|Iconium (Konya)]]
* (1097–1308)
* [[Sivas|Sebastia (Sivas)]]
* (1211–1220)
}}
| religion               = [[Sunni Islam]] (official), [[Greek Orthodox]] (majority of population)<ref>A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yildiz, ''The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East'', (I. B. Tauris, 2015), 265.</ref>
| common_languages       = {{ubl
 | [[Persian language|Persian]] (official)<ref>Grousset, Rene, ''The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia'', (Rutgers University Press, 2002), 157; "...the Seljuk court at Konya adopted Persian as its official language."</ref><ref>Bernard Lewis, ''Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire'', (University of Oklahoma Press, 1963), 29; "The literature of Seljuk Anatolia was almost entirely in Persian...".</ref>
 | [[Arabic]] (on coins){{sfn|Mecit|2013|p=82}}
 | [[Byzantine Greek]]<ref>Andrew Peacock and Sara Nur Yildiz, ''The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East'', (I. B. Tauris, 2013), 132; "''The official use of the Greek language by the Seljuk chancery is well known''".</ref>
 | [[Old Anatolian Turkish]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Early Mystics in Turkish Literature|first=Mehmed Fuad |last=Koprulu|year=2006|page=207}}</ref>
}}
| title_leader           = [[List of Seljuk sultans of Rum|Sultan]]
| leader1                = [[Suleiman ibn Qutalmish]] (first)
| year_leader1           = 1077–1086
| leader3                = [[Mesud II]] (last)
| year_leader3           = 1303–1308
| common_name            = Rum
| today                  = [[Turkey]]
}}
The '''Sultanate of Rum'''{{efn|Also referred to as the '''Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate''' ({{langx|fa|سلجوقیان روم|Saljûqiyân-i Rûm|lit=Seljuks of Rûm}}), the '''Sultanate of Iconium''', the '''Anatolian Seljuk State''' ({{langx|tr|Anadolu Selçuklu Devleti}}) or the '''Seljuks of Turkey''' ({{lang|tr|Türkiye Selçukluları}})<ref>Beihammer, Alexander Daniel (2017). ''Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040–1130''. New York: Routledge. p. 15.</ref>}} was a culturally [[Turco-Persian]] Sunni Muslim state, established over conquered [[Byzantine]] territories and peoples ([[Rum (endonym)|Rum]]) of [[Anatolia]] by the [[Seljuk Turks]] following their [[Turkic migration|entry]] into [[Anatolia]] after the [[Battle of Manzikert]] in 1071. The name ''Rum'' was a synonym for the medieval [[Eastern Roman Empire]] and its peoples, as it remains in modern [[Turkish language|Turkish]].<ref>Alexander Kazhdan, "Rūm" ''The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium'' (Oxford University Press, 1991), vol. 3, p. 1816.
[[Paul Wittek]], ''Rise of the Ottoman Empire'', Royal Asiatic Society Books, Routledge (2013), [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQwukvsKY-AC&pg=PA81 p. 81]:
"This state too bore the name of Rûm, if not officially, then at least in everyday usage, and its princes appear in the Eastern chronicles under the name '''Seljuks of Rûm''' (Ar.: {{lang|ar-Latn|Salâjika ar-Rûm}}). A. Christian Van Gorder, ''Christianity in Persia and the Status of Non-muslims in Iran'' p. 215: "The Seljuqs called the lands of their sultanate ''Rûm'' because it had been established on territory long considered 'Roman', ''i.e.'' Byzantine, by Muslim armies."</ref> The name is derived from the [[Aramaic]] ({{tlit|syc|romī}}) and [[Parthian language|Parthian]] ({{tlit|xpr|frwm}}) names for [[ancient Rome]], via the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] {{lang|grc|Ῥωμαῖοι}} ({{tlit|grc|Romaioi}}) meaning the [[Anatolia]].{{sfn|Shukurov|2020|p=145}}<ref name="oxfordreference">{{Cite book |last=Everett-Heath |first=John |title=The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0191866326 |volume=1 |chapter=Anatolia |doi=10.1093/acref/9780191866326.001.0001 |access-date=5 December 2018 |chapter-url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191866326.001.0001/acref-9780191866326-e-258 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206102228/http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191866326.001.0001/acref-9780191866326-e-258 |archive-date=6 December 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The Sultanate of Rum seceded from the [[Seljuk Empire]] under [[Suleiman ibn Qutalmish]] in 1077. It had its capital first at [[Nicaea]] and then at [[Iconium]]. It reached the height of its power during the late 12th and early 13th century, when it succeeded in taking key Byzantine ports on the [[Antalya|Mediterranean]] and [[Sinop, Turkey|Black Sea]] coasts. In the east, the sultanate reached [[Lake Van]]. Trade through Anatolia from Iran and [[Central Asia]] was developed by a system of [[caravanserai]]. Especially strong trade ties with the [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]] formed during this period. The increased wealth allowed the sultanate to absorb other Turkish states that had been established following the conquest of Byzantine Anatolia: [[Danishmendids]], [[House of Mengüjek]], [[Saltukids]], [[Artuqids]].

The Seljuk sultans bore the brunt of the [[Crusades]] and eventually succumbed to the [[Mongol invasions and conquests|Mongol invasion]] at the 1243 [[Battle of Köse Dağ]]. For the remainder of the 13th century, the Seljuks acted as vassals of the [[Ilkhanate]].<ref name="John Joseph Saunders 1971">John Joseph Saunders, ''The History of the Mongol Conquests'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971), 79.</ref> Their power disintegrated during the second half of the 13th century. The last of the Seljuk vassal sultans of the Ilkhanate, [[Mesud II]], was murdered in 1308. The dissolution of the Seljuk state left behind many small [[Anatolian beyliks]] (Turkish principalities), among them that of the [[Ottoman dynasty]], which eventually conquered the rest and reunited Anatolia to [[rise of the Ottoman Empire|become the Ottoman Empire]].

==History==
{{Further|Timeline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum}}

===Establishment===
Since the 1030s, migratory Turkish groups in search of pastureland had penetrated Byzantine borders into Anatolia.<ref>A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yildiz, ''The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East'', (I.B. Tauris, 2015), 12.</ref> In the 1070s, after the [[battle of Manzikert]], the Seljuk commander [[Suleiman ibn Qutulmish]], a distant cousin of [[Alp Arslan]] and a former contender for the throne of the [[Seljuk Empire]], came to power in western [[Anatolia]]. Between 1075 and 1081, he gained control of the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] cities of Nicaea (present-day [[İznik]]) and briefly also [[Nicomedia]] (present-day [[İzmit]]). Around two years later, he established a principality that, while initially a Byzantine [[vassal state]], became increasingly independent after six to ten years.<ref>Sicker, Martin, ''The Islamic world in ascendancy: from the Arab conquests to the siege of Vienna'', (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000), 63–64.</ref><ref>A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yildiz, ''The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East'', (I.B. Tauris, 2015), 72.</ref> Nevertheless, it seems that Suleiman was tasked by Byzantine emperor [[Alexios I Komnenos]] in 1085 to reconquer [[Antioch]] and the former travelled there on a secret route, presumably guided by the Byzantines.{{sfn|Frankopan|2013|p=51}}

Suleiman tried, unsuccessfully, to conquer [[Aleppo]] in 1086, and died in the [[Battle of Ain Salm]], either fighting his enemies or by suicide.{{sfn|Frankopan|2013|p=52}} In the aftermath, Suleiman's son [[Kilij Arslan I]] was imprisoned and a general of his, [[Abu'l-Qasim (Seljuk governor of Nicaea)|Abu'l-Qasim]], took power in Nicaea.<ref>Sicker, Martin, ''The Islamic world in ascendancy: from the Arab conquests to the siege of Vienna '', (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000), 65.</ref> Following the death of sultan [[Malik-Shah I|Malik Shah]] in 1092, Kilij Arslan was released and established himself in his father's territories between 1092 and 1094, possibly with the approval of Malik Shah's son and successor [[Berkyaruq]].{{sfn|Frankopan|2013|pp=68–69}}

===Crusades===
Kilij Arslan, although victorious against the [[People's Crusade]] of 1096, was defeated by soldiers of the [[First Crusade]] and driven back into south-central Anatolia, where he set up his state with its capital in [[Konya]]. He defeated three Crusade contingents in the [[Crusade of 1101]]. In 1107, he ventured east and captured [[Mosul]] but died the same year fighting Malik Shah's son, [[Muhammad I Tapar|Mehmed Tapar]]. He was the first Muslim commander against the crusades.{{Cn|date=January 2021}}

Meanwhile, another Rum Seljuk, [[Malik Shah (Rûm)|Malik Shah]] (not to be confused with the Seljuk sultan of the same name), captured Konya. In 1116 Kilij Arslan's son, [[Mesud I]], took the city with the help of the [[Danishmends]].{{Cn|date=January 2021}} Upon Mesud's death in 1156, the sultanate controlled nearly all of central Anatolia. 

[[File:Seljuk bas-relief of two Turkic warrior. Sultanate of Rum, Konya citadel, 12th century, Turkey.jpg|thumb|Bas-relief of two Sultanate of Rum warriors. [[Konya citadel]], 12-13th century.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Konstam |first1=Angus |title=Historical atlas of the Crusades |date=2002 |publisher=New York : Checkmark Books |isbn=978-0-8160-4919-6 |page=40 |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalatlaso0000kons_y1p6/page/40/mode/2up?view=theater |quote=A Seljuk bas-relief of two Turkish warriors}}</ref>]]
The [[Second Crusade]] was announced by Pope Eugene III, and was the first of the crusades to be led by European kings, namely Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany, with help from a number of other European nobles. The armies of the two kings marched separately across Europe. After crossing Byzantine territory into Anatolia, both armies were separately defeated by the Seljuk Turks. The main Western Christian source, Odo of Deuil, and Syriac Christian sources claim that the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos secretly hindered the crusaders' progress, particularly in Anatolia, where he is alleged to have deliberately ordered Turks to attack them. However, this alleged sabotage of the Crusade by the Byzantines was likely fabricated by Odo, who saw the Empire as an obstacle, and moreover Emperor Manuel had no political reason to do so. Louis and Conrad and the remnants of their armies reached Jerusalem and participated in 1148 in an ill-advised attack on Damascus, which ended in their retreat. In the end, the crusade in the east was a failure for the crusaders and a victory for the Muslims. It would ultimately have a key influence on the fall of Jerusalem and give rise to the Third Crusade at the end of the 12th century.

[[File:Sultan Kilij Arslan II enthroned in a tile from Alaeddin Palace, Konya, 1156-92.jpg|thumb|left|Sultan [[Kilij Arslan II]] enthroned, [[Alaeddin Kiosk|Alaeddin Palace]], [[Konya]], 1156–1192.<ref name="AAT">{{cite book |title=The Art and architecture of Turkey |date=1980 |publisher=New York : Rizzoli |isbn=978-0-8478-0273-9 |page=178 [https://archive.org/details/artarchitectureo0000unse_z1s3/page/178/mode/2up?q=%22119%22&view=theater note on plate 119], [https://archive.org/details/artarchitectureo0000unse_z1s3/page/186/mode/2up?q=%22119%22&view=theater Plate 119] |url=https://archive.org/details/artarchitectureo0000unse_z1s3/page/178/mode/2up?q=%22119%22&view=theater |quote=Page 178 Plate 119: "Throne scene on a star-shaped tile, Iranian-Seljuk minai technique, Alaeddin Palace, Konya, 1156—92 ('''Kilicarslan II''' period), D. 8.5 cm. The sultan, sitting cross-legged on his throne, is holding a pomegranate in one hand; there are tiraz bands on his arms and two guards next to him. Karatay Madrasah Museum, Konya.}}</ref>]]
Mesud's son, [[Kilij Arslan II]], is the first known Seljuk ruler who is known to have used the title of [[sultan]]<ref>A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yildiz, ''The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East'', (I.B. Tauris, 2015), 73.</ref> and captured the remaining territories around [[Sivas]] and [[Malatya]] from the last of the Danishmends. At the [[Battle of Myriokephalon]] in 1176, Kilij Arslan II also defeated a Byzantine army led by [[Manuel I Komnenos]]. Despite a temporary occupation of Konya in 1190 by the [[Holy Roman Empire]]'s forces of the [[Third Crusade]], the sultanate was quick to recover and consolidate its power.<ref name="Turan244-245">''Anatolia in the period of the Seljuks and the "beyliks"'', Osman Turan, ''The Cambridge History of Islam'', Vol. 1A, ed. P.M. Holt, Ann K.S. Lambton and Bernard Lewis, (Cambridge University Press, 1995), 244–245.</ref> During the last years of Kilij Arslan II's reign, the sultanate experienced a civil war with [[Kaykhusraw I]] fighting to retain control and losing to his brother [[Suleiman II (Rûm)|Suleiman II]] in 1196.<ref name="Turan244-245" /><ref>A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yildiz, ''The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East'', (I.B. Tauris, 2015), 29.</ref>

Following Kilij Arslan II's death, the sultanate was divided amongst his sons.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|p=41}} Elbistan was given to [[Tughril ibn Kılıç Arslan II]], but when Erzurum was taken from the Saltukids at the start of the thirteenth century, he was installed there.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|pp=137–138}} Tughril governed Erzurum from 1192 to 1221.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|pp=137–138}} During 1211–1212, he broke free from the Seljuk state.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|pp=137–138}} In 1230, [[Jahan Shah bin Tughril]] who was allied to the Khwarazmshah Jalal al-Din, lost the [[Battle of Yassıçemen]], allowing for Erzurum to be annexed by the Seljuk sultanate.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|pp=137–138}}

[[File:Anatolia1200.png|thumb|upright=1|The Sultanate of Rûm and surrounding states, c.&nbsp;1200]]
[[Suleiman II (Rûm)|Suleiman II]] rallied his vassal [[emir]]s and marched against Georgia, with an army of 150,000–400,000 and encamped in the [[Basiani]] valley. [[Tamar of Georgia]] quickly marshaled an army throughout her possessions and put it under command of her consort, [[David Soslan]]. Georgian troops under [[David Soslan]] made a sudden advance into [[Battle of Basian|Basiani]] and assailed the enemy's camp in 1203 or 1204. In a pitched battle, the Seljukid forces managed to roll back several attacks of the Georgians but were eventually overwhelmed and defeated. Loss of the sultan's banner to the Georgians resulted in a panic within the Seljuk ranks. Süleymanshah himself was wounded and withdrew to Erzurum. Both the Rum Seljuk and Georgian armies suffered heavy casualties, but coordinated flanking attacks won the battle for the Georgians.<ref name="Mikaberidze184">Alexander Mikaberidze, ''Historical Dictionary of Georgia'', (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), 184.</ref>{{bsn|date=November 2021}}

Suleiman II died in 1204<ref name="Cahen42">Claude Cahen, ''The Formation of Turkey: The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth'', transl. & ed. P.M. Holt, (Pearson Education Limited, 2001), 42.</ref> and was succeeded by his son [[Kilij Arslan III]], whose reign was unpopular.<ref name="Cahen42" /> Kaykhusraw I seized Konya in 1205 reestablishing his reign.<ref name="Cahen42" /> Under his rule and those of his two successors, [[Kaykaus I]] and [[Kayqubad I]], Seljuk power in Anatolia reached its apogee. Kaykhusraw's most important achievement was the capture of the harbour of [[Antalya|Attalia]] (Antalya) on the Mediterranean coast in 1207. His son Kaykaus captured [[Sinop, Turkey|Sinop]]{{sfn|Tricht|2011|p=355}} and made the [[Empire of Trebizond]] his vassal in 1214.{{sfn|Ring|Watson|Schellinger|1995|p=651}} He also subjugated [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|Cilician Armenia]] but in 1218 was forced to surrender the city of Aleppo, acquired from [[al-Kamil]]. [[Kayqubad I|Kayqubad]] continued to acquire lands along the Mediterranean coast from 1221 to 1225.{{Cn|date=January 2021}}

In the 1220s, he sent an expeditionary force across the [[Black Sea]] to [[Crimea]].<ref>A.C.S. Peacock, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25188622 "The Saliūq Campaign against the Crimea and the Expansionist Policy of the Early Reign of'Alā' al-Dīn Kayqubād"], ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society'', Vol. 16 (2006), pp. 133–149.</ref> In the east he defeated the [[Mengujekids]] and began to put pressure on the [[Artuqids]].{{Cn|date=January 2021}}

===Mongol conquest===
{{main|Mongol conquest of Anatolia}}
[[File:Seljuks of Anatolia, horseman relief, Konya Palace, 13th century.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Frieze with Sultanate of Rum horseman, [[Seljuk palace of Konya|Konya Palace]], 1156-1192.<ref>{{cite book |title=Turks: a journey of a thousand years, 600-1600 |date=2005 |publisher=Royal Academy of Arts ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Harry N. Abrams |location=London : New York |isbn=978-1903973578 |pages=114, 392}}</ref>]]
[[Kaykhusraw II]] (1237–1246) began his reign by capturing the region around [[Diyarbakır]], but in 1239 he had to face an uprising led by a popular preacher named [[Baba Ishak]]. After three years, when he had finally quelled the revolt, the Crimean foothold was lost and the state and the sultanate's army had weakened. It is in these conditions that he had to face a far more dangerous threat, that of the expanding [[Mongols]]. The forces of the [[Mongol Empire]] took [[Erzurum]] in 1242 and in 1243, the sultan was crushed by [[Baiju Noyan|Baiju]] in the [[Battle of Köse Dağ]] (a mountain between the cities of [[Sivas Province|Sivas]] and [[Erzincan]]), resulting in the Seljuk Turks being forced to swear allegiance to the Mongols and became their vassals.<ref name="John Joseph Saunders 1971"/> The sultan himself had fled to Antalya after the battle, where he died in 1246; his death started a period of tripartite, and then dual, rule that lasted until 1260.

The [[Seljuk dynasty|Seljuk]] realm was divided among [[Kaykhusraw II|Kaykhusraw's]] three sons. The eldest, [[Kaykaus II]] (1246–1260), assumed the rule in the area west of the river [[Kızılırmak River|Kızılırmak]]. His younger brothers, [[Kilij Arslan IV]] (1248–1265) and [[Kayqubad II]] (1249–1257), were set to rule the regions east of the river under Mongol administration. In October 1256, Bayju defeated Kaykaus II near [[Aksaray]] and all of Anatolia became officially subject to [[Möngke Khan]]. In 1260 Kaykaus II fled from Konya to Crimea where he died in 1279. Kilij Arslan IV was executed in 1265, and [[Kaykhusraw III]] (1265–1284) became the nominal ruler of all of Anatolia, with the tangible power exercised either by the Mongols or the sultan's influential regents.

[[File:Anatolian Beyliks in 1300.png|thumb|upright=1|The declining Sultanate of Rûm, vassal of the [[Ilkhanate|Mongols]], and the emerging beyliks, c.&nbsp;1300]]
The Seljuk state had started to split into small [[emirate]]s ([[Anatolian beyliks|beyliks]]) that increasingly distanced themselves from both Mongol and Seljuk control. In 1277, responding to a call from Anatolia, the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk Sultan]] [[Baibars]] raided Anatolia and defeated the Mongols at the [[Battle of Elbistan]],{{sfn|Kastritsis|2013|p=26}} temporarily replacing them as the administrator of the Seljuk realm. Following the ensuing chaos, the [[Karamanids]] under [[Shams al-Din Mehmed]] managed to capture [[Konya]], briefly installing [[Jimri]] as a puppet ruler of the Sultanate of Rum. Since the native forces who had called him to Anatolia did not manifest themselves for the defense of the land, Baibars soon had to return to his home base in [[Egypt]], and the Mongol administration was re-assumed, officially and severely. Also, the [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia]] captured the Mediterranean coast from [[Gazipaşa|Selinos]] to [[Silifke|Seleucia]], as well as the cities of [[Kahramanmaraş|Marash]] and [[Besni|Behisni]], from the Seljuk in the 1240s.

Near the end of his reign, Kaykhusraw III could claim direct sovereignty only over lands around Konya. Some of the beyliks (including the early Ottoman state) and Seljuk governors of Anatolia continued to recognize, albeit nominally, the supremacy of the sultan in Konya, delivering the [[khutbah]] in the name of the sultans in Konya in recognition of their sovereignty, and the sultans continued to call themselves Fahreddin, ''the Pride of Islam''. When Kaykhusraw III was executed in 1284, the Seljuk dynasty suffered another blow from internal struggles which lasted until 1303 when the son of Kaykaus II, [[Mesud II]], established himself as sultan in [[Kayseri]]. He was murdered in 1308 and his son Mesud III soon afterwards. A distant relative to the Seljuk dynasty momentarily installed himself as emir of Konya, but he was defeated and his lands conquered by the [[Karamanids]] in 1328. The sultanate's monetary sphere of influence lasted slightly longer and coins of Seljuk mint, generally considered to be of reliable value, continued to be used throughout the 14th century, once again, including by the Ottomans.

==Culture and society==
The Seljuk dynasty of Rum, as successors to the Great Seljuks, based its political, religious and cultural heritage on the [[Turco-Persian tradition]] and [[Greco-Roman world]],<ref>''Saljuqs: Saljuqs of Anatolia'', Robert Hillenbrand, ''The Dictionary of Art'', Vol.27, Ed. Jane Turner, (Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1996), 632.</ref> even to the point of naming their sons with [[New Persian]] names.<ref>Rudi Paul Lindner, ''Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory'', (University of Michigan Press, 2003), 3.</ref> The Seljuks of Rum had inherited the administrative method of Persian statecraft from the Seljuk Empire, which they would later pass on to the Ottomans.{{sfn|Itzkowitz|1980|p=48}} Despites such influences, Seljuk art remained essentially Central Asian in character.<ref>{{cite book |title=Turks: a journey of a thousand years, 600-1600 |date=2005 |publisher=Royal Academy of Arts ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Harry N. Abrams |location=London : New York |isbn=978-1903973578 |page=106|quote=Despite the undoubted influence of Iranian culture on the Great Seljuks and the Anatolian Seljuks, Seljuk art remained essentially Central Asian in character.}}</ref>

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| image1   = Konya Karatay Ceramics Museum Kubad Abad Palace tile 2389.jpg
| caption1 = Sultan [[Kayqubad I]] (r.1220–1237) or a notable of his court, seated in Turkic style and holding a flower, symbol of eternal life. [[Kubadabad Palace]], late 1220s.<ref name="OM">{{cite book |last1=Özel |first1=Mehmet |title=Traditional Turkish Arts: Tiles and ceramics |date=1986 |publisher=General Directorate of Fine Arts, Ministry of Culture and Tourism,Turkish Republic |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22sPm_Xj9FwC&pg=PA15 |language=en |quote=Kubadabad tiles consist of panels of figural tiles linked by cruciform tiles decorated with arabesques. The figural tiles are decorated with figures of the sultan, harem women, courtiers and servants. However, the most interesting figures are the various animals related to hunting and the imaginary or magical animals. Such creatures as the sphinx, siren, single and double-headed eagles, single and paired peacocks, paired birds flanking the tree of life and dragon create a magical world of the imagination. They are all symbolic representations of the rich figural world of the Seljuks. Animals related to hunting, such as the fox, hare, wolf, mountain goat, wild ass, bear, lion, falcon, hawk and antelope are in widely varying and highly artistic compositions.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Art and architecture of Turkey |date=1980 |publisher=New York : Rizzoli |isbn=978-0-8478-0273-9 |pages=175-176 |url=https://archive.org/details/artarchitectureo0000unse_z1s3/page/174/mode/2up?q=kubadabad&view=theater |quote=Usually made in the underglaze technique, the star tiles contain an extremely rich figural design, depicting '''the sultan''', the elite of the palace and animals of the hunt as well as imaginary or so-called 'fabulous' animals. (See figural reliefs and sculptures, p. 171.) The sultan and the palace notables, including in some cases the palace women, are shown sitting cross-legged in the Turkish tradition. In most cases, the figures hold in their hands a symbol representing eternal life-a pomegranate or opium branch or an astrological symbol like the fish. It is interesting to note the parallels with the same motifs in Anatolian Seljuk architecture.}}</ref>
| image2   = Enturbaned and bearded figure, holding an inscribed tablet. Large Palace, Kubadabad 1220s.jpg
| caption2 = Enturbaned and bearded figure of a likely high-ranking official, holding an inscribed tablet in his hand. [[Kubadabad Palace]], late 1220s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=YAVAŞ |first1=Alptekin |last2=KOÇYİĞİT |first2=Oğuz |title=KUBAD ABAD: Beyşehir Gölü Kıyısında Bir Selçuklu Sitesi |publisher=Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları |isbn=978-605-389-619-7 |page=Fig.90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41nPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT256 |language=tr |quote=(Translation from Turkish): Likely that they are depictions of high-ranking members of the palace or important wise people.}}</ref>}}
As an expression of Turco-Persian culture,<ref>{{citation | first = Bernard | last = Lewis | title = Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire | page = 29 | quote = Even when the land of Rum became politically independent, it remained a colonial extension of Turco-Persian culture which had its centers in Iran and Central Asia&nbsp;... The literature of Seljuk Anatolia was almost entirely in Persian&nbsp;... }}</ref> Rum Seljuks patronized [[Persian art]], [[Iranian architecture|architecture]], and [[Persian literature|literature]].{{sfn|Khanbaghi|2016|p=202}} Unlike the Seljuk Empire, the Seljuk sultans of Rum had Persian names such as [[Kay Khosrow]], [[Kay Kawad|Kay Kawad/Qobad]], and [[Kay Kāvus]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Turks: a journey of a thousand years, 600-1600 |date=2005 |publisher=Royal Academy of Arts ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Harry N. Abrams |location=London : New York |isbn=978-1903973578 |page=106}}</ref> The bureaucrats and religious elite of their realm were generally Persian.{{sfn|Hillenbrand|2020|p=15}} In the 13th century, most Muslim inhabitants in major Anatolian urban hubs reportedly spoke Persian as their main language.{{sfn|Shukurov|2020|p=155}}

It was in the 13th century that the proneness of imitating Iran in terms of administration, religion and culture reached its zenith, encouraged by the major influx of Persian refugees fleeing Mongol invasions, who brought Persian culture with them and were instrumental in creating a "second Iran" in Anatolia.<ref>{{harvnb|Hillenbrand|2021|p=211}} "Inner Anatolia was now set to become Muslim gradually, and this process occurred under the leadership of the Turks. In Anatolia, as elsewhere, the Seljuq rulers drank in Persian cultural ways in their cities. This tendency to copy Iran in administration, religion and culture reached its height in the thirteenth century with the fuller development of the Seljuq state in Anatolia and the influx of Persian refugees to Anatolian cities. Thus ‘a second Iran’ was created in Anatolia. It is food for thought that, while it was the Turks who conquered and settled the land of Anatolia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, it was the Persians who were instrumental in bringing to these territories a developed Islamic religious and secular culture. (...) ''Quote in French:'' Les réfugiés iraniens qui entrèrent en grand nombre en Anatolie à la suite des invasions mongoles de l’Iran – les fonctionnaires, les poètes, les Sufis et, avant tout, les cadres religieux – transformèrent de l’intérieur la culture urbaine de cette région."</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Findley |first1=Carter V. |title=The Turks in World History |date=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-517726-8 |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ToAjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT89 |language=en |quote=Meanwhile, amid the migratory swarm that Turkified Anatolia, the dispersion of learned men from the Persian-speaking east paradoxically made the Seljuk court at Konya a new center for Perso-Islamic court culture.}}</ref> Iranian cultural, political, and literary traditions deeply influenced  Anatolia in the early 13th century.{{sfn|Hickman|Leiser|2016|p=278}} The notable historian [[Ibn Bibi]] composed a six-volume Persian language poetic work called the [[Selçukname]], modeled after the [[Shahnamah]], which focused on the Seljuk sultans.{{sfn|Inalcik|2008|p=20}}

[[File:Standing man holding a pomegranate. Late 1220s, Kubadabad.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.6|Standing man holding a pomegranate. Late 1220s, [[Kubadabad]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Turks: a journey of a thousand years, 600-1600 |date=2005 |publisher=Royal Academy of Arts ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Harry N. Abrams |location=London : New York |isbn=978-1903973578 |page=117}}</ref>]]
Despite their Turkic origins, the Seljuks used Persian for administrative purposes; even their histories, which replaced Arabic, were in Persian.{{sfn|Khanbaghi|2016|p=202}} Their usage of Turkish was hardly promoted at all.{{sfn|Khanbaghi|2016|p=202}} Even Sultan [[Kilij Arslan II]], as a child, spoke to courtiers in Persian.{{sfn|Khanbaghi|2016|p=202}} Khanbaghi states the Anatolian Seljuks were even more Persianized than the Seljuks that ruled the Iranian plateau.{{sfn|Khanbaghi|2016|p=202}} Persian poetry was written by sultans [[Suleiman II of Rûm|Suleiman II]], [[Kayqubad I]], and [[Kaykhusraw II]].{{sfn|Inalcik|2008|p=21}}  Written documents used either Persian or Anatolian Turkic, but the army used the Turkic language exclusively.<ref>{{cite book |title=Turks: a journey of a thousand years, 600-1600 |date=2005 |publisher=Royal Academy of Arts ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Harry N. Abrams |location=London : New York |isbn=978-1903973578 |page=106|quote=However, scholarship and literature were influences by Iran, and Persian was used alongside Anatolian Turkic in written documents during this period, although Turkic was the only language used by the army.}}</ref>

The ''[[Rahat al-sudur]]'', the history of the Great Seljuk Empire and its breakup, written in Persian by Muhammad bin Ali Rawandi, was dedicated to Sultan [[Kaykhusraw I]].{{sfn|Richards|Robinson|2003|p=265}} Even the ''[[Tārikh-i Āl-i Saldjūq]]'', an anonymous history of the Sultanate of Rum, was written in Persian.{{sfn|Crane|1993|p=2}} The sultans of Rum were largely not educated in Arabic.{{sfn|Cahen|Holt|2001|p=163}} This clearly limited the Arab influence, or at least the direct influence, to a relatively small degree.{{sfn|Cahen|Holt|2001|p=163}} In contrast, Persian literature and Iranian influence expanded because most sultans and even a significant portion of the townspeople knew the language.{{sfn|Cahen|Holt|2001|p=163}}

One of its most famous Persian writers, [[Rumi]], took his name from the name of the state. Moreover, Byzantine influence in the Sultanate was also significant, since Byzantine Greek aristocracy remained part of the Seljuk nobility, and the native Byzantine (Rûm) peasants remained numerous in the region.<ref>{{citation | chapter = The Oriental Margins of the Byzantine World: a Prosopographical Perspective | first = Rustam | last = Shukurov | editor-last1=Herrin|editor-first1=Judith|editor-last2=Saint-Guillain|editor-first2=Guillaume|title=Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_mazcfdpVIC|year=2011|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-1098-0 | pages = 181–191 }}</ref><ref>{{citation | chapter = A sultan in Constantinople: the feasts of Ghiyath al-Din Kay-Khusraw I | first = Dimitri | last = Korobeinikov | editor-last1 =Brubaker|editor-first1 = Leslie|editor-last2=Linardou|editor-first2=Kallirroe|title=Eat, Drink, and be Merry (Luke 12:19): Food and Wine in Byzantium: Papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, in Honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pGfbbVfR9Z8C&pg=PA96|date=2007|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-6119-1 | page = 96 }}</ref> Based on their genealogy, it appears that the Seljuk sultans favored Christian [[concubinage in Islam|slave-concubines]], just like the early Ottoman sultans. Within the [[Seljuk harem]], Greek women were the most dominant.<ref>A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yildiz, ''The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East'', (I.B. Tauris, 2015), 121.</ref> Cultural Turkification in Anatolia first started during the 14th-century, particularly during the gradual rise of the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]].{{sfn|Hillenbrand|2021|p=211}} With a population that included [[Byzantine Greeks]], [[Armenians]], [[Kurds]], Turks, and Persians, the Seljuks were very successful between 1220 and 1250 and set the groundwork for later Islamization of Anatolia.{{sfn|Hillenbrand|2021|p=333}}

== Architecture ==
{{Main|Anatolian Seljuk architecture}}
[[File:Konya citadel (Plate 116b, Voyage de l'Asie Mineure, 1838).jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|The [[Konya citadel]] (city walls of [[Konya]]), built and decorated by [[Kayqubad I]] in the 1220s, incorporated many Greco-Roman Classical elements for its decoration. [[Léon de Laborde]], 1838]]
Architectural styles of the Sultanate of Rum were rather eclectic. The [[:Commons:Category:Konya citadel|walls of Konya]] in particular, built by [[Kayqubad I]] (r.1220–1237), adopted many western decorative elements, such as a statue of [[Hercules]], a frieze from a Roman sarcophagus, courtly scenes with seated figures in toga, winged deities around the figure of the sun, mixed with inscriptions in Arabic.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yalman |first1=Suzan |title=‘ALA AL-DIN KAYQUBAD ILLUMINATED: A RUM SELJUQ SULTAN AS COSMIC RULER |journal=Muqarnas Online |date=1 January 2012 |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=151–186 |doi=10.1163/22118993-90000186 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274996239_'ALA_AL-DIN_KAYQUBAD_ILLUMINATED_A_RUM_SELJUQ_SULTAN_AS_COSMIC_RULER |quote=In some cases—such as the sultan’s well-known city walls in Konya—there appears to be, at first sight, an antiquarian penchant for the “classical” or “Roman” past (fig. 1). (...) Nevertheless, the portrait’s classicizing aspect is important in that it resonates with the use of spoliated classical sculpture in the walls of Konya (fig. 1). (...) Kayqubad’s walls in Konya. (...) above the statue of Hercules was a reused Roman sarcophagus frieze carved in high relief; the latter featured a courtly scene with a seated figure wearing a toga and holding an orb (“a ball, the symbol of the world” according to Kinneir). Above this image was an Arabic inscription and then winged “genies” making offerings to the “sun” (as described by Olivier).}}</ref> It would seem that such symbolism mixing Western and Eastern elements was mostly derived from the influence of the [[Artuqids]], who were adept at combining Classical and Perso-Islamic approaches.<ref name="SY">{{cite journal |last1=Yalman |first1=Suzan |title=‘ALA AL-DIN KAYQUBAD ILLUMINATED: A RUM SELJUQ SULTAN AS COSMIC RULER |journal=Muqarnas Online |date=1 January 2012 |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=151–186 |doi=10.1163/22118993-90000186 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274996239_'ALA_AL-DIN_KAYQUBAD_ILLUMINATED_A_RUM_SELJUQ_SULTAN_AS_COSMIC_RULER |quote=As I will argue below, in addition to obvious “Western” links, Kayqubad was also inspired by sources further “East,” such as the Artuqids of Hisn Kaifa and Amid (1102-1232), which combining Classical and Perso-Islamic impulses, seemed better suited as models. In fact, upon closer examination, these pagan/secular Roman imperial (“Western”) signs seemed to be infused with mystical/Sufi (“Eastern”) readings that imbued them with new meaning. Most significant was the emergence of an unexpected undercurrent of light symbolism.}}</ref>

In their construction of [[caravanserai]]s, [[madrasa]]s and [[mosque]]s, the Rum Seljuks translated the Iranian Seljuk architecture of bricks and plaster into the use of stone.<ref>{{citation | chapter = West Asia: 1000–1500 | first1 = Sheila | last1 = Blair | first2 = Jonathan | last2 = Bloom | title = Atlas of World Art | editor-first = John | editor-last = Onians | publisher = Laurence King Publishing | date = 2004 | page = 130 }}</ref> Among these, the ''caravanserais'' (or ''hans''), used as stops, trading posts and defense for caravans, and of which about a hundred structures were built during the Anatolian Seljuk period, are particularly remarkable. Along with Persian influences, which had an indisputable effect,<ref>''Architecture (Muhammadan)'', H. Saladin, ''Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics'', Vol.1, Ed. James Hastings and John Alexander, (Charles Scribner's son, 1908), 753.</ref> Seljuk architecture was inspired by local Byzantine architects, for example in the [[Gök Medrese, Sivas|Celestial Mosque in Sivas]], and by [[Armenian architecture]].<ref>''Armenia during the Seljuk and Mongol Periods'', Robert Bedrosian, ''The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times: The Dynastic Periods from Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century'', Vol. I, Ed. Richard Hovannisian, (St. Martin's Press, 1999), 250.</ref> Anatolian architecture represents some of the most distinctive and impressive{{opinion|date=January 2025}} constructions in the entire history of Islamic architecture. Later, this Anatolian architecture would be inherited by the [[Delhi Sultanate|Sultanate of India]].<ref>''Lost in Translation: Architecture, Taxonomy, and the "Eastern Turks"'', Finbarr Barry Flood, ''Muqarnas: History and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the "Lands of Rum'', 96.</ref>

[[File:Gok_Medresesi1.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Gök Medrese (Sivas)|Gök Medrese]] (Celestial [[Madrasa]]) of [[Sivas]], built by a Greek ([[Rûm]]) subject in the periodic capital of the Sultanate of Rum in 1271]]
The largest caravanserai is the [[Sultan Han]] (built-in 1229) on the road between the cities of Konya and Aksaray, in the township of [[Sultanhanı]], covering {{convert|3900|m2|abbr=on}}. Two caravanserais carry the name ''Sultan Han'', [[Sultan Han (Kayseri)|the other one]] being between Kayseri and Sivas. Furthermore, apart from Sultanhanı, five other towns across Turkey owe their names to caravanserais built there. These are Alacahan in [[Kangal]], [[Durağan]], [[Hekimhan]] and [[Kadınhanı]], as well as the township of Akhan within the [[Denizli]] metropolitan area. The caravanserai of Hekimhan is unique in having, underneath the usual inscription in [[Arabic]] with information relating to the tower, two further inscriptions in [[Armenian language|Armenian]] and [[Syriac language|Syriac]], since it was constructed by the sultan [[Kayqubad I]]'s doctor (''hekim''), who is thought to have been a [[Conversion to Islam|Christian convert to Islam]]. 

There are other particular cases, like the settlement in [[:tr:Kalehisar, Çorum|Kalehisar]] contiguous to an ancient [[Hittites|Hittite]] site near [[Alaca, Çorum|Alaca]], founded by the Seljuk commander [[Hüsameddin Temurlu]], who had taken refuge in the region after the defeat in the [[Battle of Köse Dağ]] and had founded a township comprising a castle, a madrasa, a habitation zone and a caravanserai, which were later abandoned apparently around the 16th century. All but the caravanserai, which remains undiscovered, was explored in the 1960s by the art historian [[Oktay Aslanapa]], and the finds as well as several documents attest to the existence of a vivid settlement in the site, such as a 1463 Ottoman [[firman]] which instructs the headmaster of the madrasa to lodge not in the school but in the caravanserai.{{Cn|date=January 2021}}

The Seljuk palaces, as well as their armies, were staffed with [[ghilman|ghilmān]] ({{langx|ar|غِلْمَان}}), singular ''ghulam''), slave-soldiers taken as children from non-Muslim communities, mainly Greeks from former Byzantine territories. The practice of keeping ghilmān may have offered a model for the later [[devşirme]] during the time of the [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Rodriguez|first=Junius P.|author-link=Junius P. Rodriguez|title=The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery|url=https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl01rodr|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl01rodr/page/306 306]|year=1997|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-87436-885-7 }}</ref>

==Literature==
[[File:Gulshah (right) disguised as a man, watches as her lover Varqa (centre) and his rival Rabi fight on horseback.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Battle scene in ''[[Varka and Golshah]]'', 1225–1250 miniature, [[Konya]], Sultanate of Rum.<ref>These knights were equipped with long swords and bows, and for protection used large shields ("kite-shields"), lamellar armour and ''[[hauberk]]'' mail {{cite book |last1=Gorelik |first1=Michael |title=Oriental Armour of the Near and Middle East from the Eighth to the Fifteenth Centuries as Shown in Works of Art (in Islamic Arms and Armour) |date=1979 |publisher=Robert Elgood |page=Fig. 38 |location=London |isbn=978-0859674706 |url=http://warfare.6te.net/Gorelik-Oriental_Armour.htm}}</ref><ref name="AAOS">{{cite journal |last1=Sabuhi |first1=Ahmadov Ahmad oglu |title=The miniatures of the manuscript "Varka and Gulshah" as a source for the study of weapons of XII–XIII centuries in Azerbaijan |journal=Austrian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences |date=July–August 2015|issue=7–8 |pages=14–16 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305236939}}</ref>]]
The earliest known [[Persian miniature|illustrated manuscript in the Persian language]] is an early 13th century copy of the epic ''[[Varka and Golshah]]'', which was most probably created in [[Konya]], under the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum.<ref>{{harvnb|Hillenbrand|2021|p=208}} "The earliest illustrated Persian manuscript, signed by an artist from Khuy in north-west Iran, was produced between 1225 and 1250, almost certainly in Konya. (Cf. A. S. Melikian-Chirvani, ‘Le roman de Varqe et Golsâh’, Arts Asiatiques XXII (Paris, 1970))"</ref><ref name="SSB">{{cite book |last1=Blair |first1=Sheila S. |title=Islamic Calligraphy |date=19 January 2020 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-1-4744-6447-5 |page=366 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m6QxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA366 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Necipoğlu |first1=Gülru |last2=Leal |first2=Karen A. |title=Muqarnas |date=1 October 2009 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-17589-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gq6obUbnqsMC&pg=PA235 |language=en}}</ref> It can be dated to circa 1250.<ref name="JB214">{{cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Jonathan |last2=Blair |first2=Sheila |title=Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set |date=14 May 2009 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=978-0-19-530991-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=un4WcfEASZwC&pg=RA1-PA214 |page=214–215 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ettinghausen |first1=Richard |title=Arab painting |date=1977 |publisher=New York : Rizzoli |isbn=978-0-8478-0081-0 |page=91, [https://archive.org/details/arabpainting0000etti/page/92/mode/2up?q=%22Illustration+page+91%22 92], [https://archive.org/details/arabpainting0000etti/page/162/mode/2up?q=%22these+Turks%22 162] commentary |url=https://archive.org/details/arabpainting0000etti/page/91/mode/2up |quote=The two scenes in the top and bottom registers (...) may be strongly influenced by contemporary Seljuk Persian (...) like those in the recently discovered Varqeh and Gulshah (p.92) (...) In the painting the facial cast of these Turks is obviously reflected, and so are the special fashions and accoutrements they favored. (p.162, commentary on image from p.91)}}</ref>

The miniatures represent typical Central Asian people, thickset with large round heads.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Waley |first1=P. |last2=Titley |first2=Norah M. |title=An Illustrated Persian Text of Kalīla and Dimna Dated 707/1307-8 |journal=The British Library Journal |date=1975 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=42–61 |jstor=42553970 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42553970 |issn=0305-5167 |quote="A unique Seljùq manuscript in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum Library (Hazine 841) (fig. 7). This manuscript, the romance Varqa va Gulshah, probably dates from the early thirteenth century . The figures in the miniatures with the typical features of Central Asian people are squat and thickset with large round heads. They are to be seen again in a more sophisticated form in the so-called [[Turkman style]] miniatures produced in [[Shiraz]] c. 1460 – 1502 under the patronage of another dynasty of [[Aq Qoyunlu|Turkman invaders]]."}}</ref> They also provide rare depictions of the contemporary military of the Seljuk period, and may have influenced other known depictions of Turkic Seljuk soldiers.<ref name="RE">{{cite book |last1=Ettinghausen |first1=Richard |title=Arab painting |date=1977 |publisher=New York : Rizzoli |isbn=978-0-8478-0081-0 |pages=91–92 |url=https://archive.org/details/arabpainting0000etti/page/92/mode/2up?q=%22Illustration+page+91%22}}</ref> All depicted costumes and accoutrements are contemporary to the artist, in the 13th century CE.<ref name="AAOS"/> The miniatures constitute the first known example of illustrated Persian-language manuscript, dating from the pre-[[Mongol]] era, and are useful in studying weapons of the period.<ref name="AAOS">{{cite journal |last1=Sabuhi |first1=Ahmadov Ahmad oglu |title=The miniatures of the manuscript "Varka and Gulshah" as a source for the study of weapons of XII–XIII centuries in Azerbaijan |journal=Austrian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences |date=July–August 2015|issue=7–8 |pages=14–16 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305236939}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gorelik |first1=Michael |title=Oriental Armour of the Near and Middle East from the Eighth to the Fifteenth Centuries as Shown in Works of Art (in Islamic Arms and Armour) |date=1979 |publisher=Robert Elgood |page=Fig.38 |location=London |isbn=978-0859674706 |url=http://warfare.6te.net/Gorelik-Oriental_Armour.htm}}</ref> Particularly, metal face masks and chainmail helmets in Turkic fashion, and armor with small metal plates connected through straps, large round shields (the largest of them called "kite-shields") and long teardrop shields, armoured horses are depicted.<ref name="AAOS"/> The weapons and armour types depicted in the miniatures were common in the Middle East and the Caucasus in the [[Seljuk Empire|Seljuk]] era.<ref name="AAOS"/>

==Numismatics==
The earliest documented Rum Seljuq copper coins were made in the first part of the twelfth century in Konya and the eastern Anatolian emirates.{{sfn|Beihammer|2017|p=20}} Extensive numismatic evidence suggests that, starting in the middle of the thirteenth century and continuing until the end of the Seljuk dynasty, silver-producing mints and silver coinage flourished, particularly in central and eastern Anatolia.{{sfn|Pamuk|2000|p=28}}

[[File:Suleyman II of Rum, Qunya, 597 H (1200-1201).jpg|thumb|left|Gold coinage of [[Suleiman II (Rûm)|Suleiman II]] of Rum, [[Konya]], 597 H (1200–1201 CE)]]
Most of Kilij Arslan II's coins were minted in Konya between 1177–78 and 1195, with a small amount also occurring in Sivas, which the Rum Seljuks conquered from the Danishmendids.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|p=41}} Sivas may have started minting coins in 1185–1186.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|p=41}} The majority of Kılıj Arslan II's coins are silver [[dirham]]s; however, there are also a few [[dinar]]s and one or two [[fals|fulūs]] (small copper coins) issues.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|p=41}} Following his death the sultanate was divided among his sons. Muhyiddin Mesut, son of Kilij Arslan II, minted coins in the northwesterly cities of Ankara, Çankırı, Eskişehir, and Kaztamunu from 1186 to 1200.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|p=41}} [[Tughril ibn Kılıç Arslan II]]'s reign in Erzurum, another son of Kilij Arslan II, minted silver dirhams in 1211–1212.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|p=41}} 

[[File:Kaykhusraw II dirham.jpg|thumb|Dirham of [[Kaykhusraw II]], minted at Sivas, 1240–1241&nbsp;AD]]
The sun-lion and the equestrian are the two central motifs in the Rum Seljuq numismatic figural repertoire.{{sfn|Canby|Beyazit|Rugiadi|Peacock|2016|p=69}} The image of a horseman with two more arrows ready and his bow taut represents strength and control and is a representation of the ideal Seljuq king of the Great Age.{{sfn|Canby|Beyazit|Rugiadi|Peacock|2016|p=69}} The image initially appeared on Rum Seljuq copper coins in the late eleventh century.{{sfn|Canby|Beyazit|Rugiadi|Peacock|2016|p=69}} The first to add equestrian iconography to silver and gold coins was [[Suleiman II of Rûm]](r. 1196–1204).{{sfn|Canby|Beyazit|Rugiadi|Peacock|2016|p=69}} Antalya minted coins with [[Kaykaus I]]'s name from November 1261 to November 1262.{{sfn|Shukurov|2016|p=104}} Between 1211 and 1219, the bulk of his coins are minted at Konya and Sivas.{{sfn|Sinclair|2020|p=41}}

A significant portion of the Islamic Near East may have experienced a "silver famine" owing to little, or very little, silver mintings from the eleventh and most of the twelfth centuries. However, at the start of the thirteenth century a "silver flood" occurred in Rum Seljuq territory when Anatolian silver mines were discovered.{{sfn|Canby|Beyazit|Rugiadi|Peacock|2016|p=68}} The fineness of Rum Seljuq [[dirham]]s is similar to that of [[dinar]]s; frequently, both were struck using the same dies.{{sfn|Canby|Beyazit|Rugiadi|Peacock|2016|p=68}} The Seljuq silver coinage's superior quality and prominence contributed to the dynasty's affluence throughout the early part of the thirteenth century and explains why it served as a kind of anchor for the local "currency community."{{sfn|Canby|Beyazit|Rugiadi|Peacock|2016|pp=68–69}} The [[Empire of Trebizond]] and [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia]] silver coins were modeled after the fineness and weight specifications of Rum Seljuq coins.{{sfn|Canby|Beyazit|Rugiadi|Peacock|2016|p=69}}

==Dynasty==
{{further|Seljuk dynasty}}
[[File:Double-headed eagle, with al-Sultan inscription on the chest. Kubadabad, 1220s.jpg|thumb|Double-headed eagle, with ''"al-Sultan"'' inscription on the chest. [[Kubadabad Palace]], 1220s.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Redford |first1=Scott |title=Thirteenth-Century Rum Seljuq Palaces and Palace Imagery |journal=Ars Orientalis |date=1993 |volume=23 |page=231, Fig.10 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4629450 |issn=0571-1371}}</ref>]]
{{History of Turkey}}
{{History of the Turks pre-14th century}}
As regards with the names of the sultans, there are variants in form and spelling depending on the preferences displayed by one source or the other, either for fidelity in [[Romanization of Arabic|transliterating]] the [[Persian alphabet|Persian variant]] of the [[Arabic script]] which the sultans used, or for a rendering corresponding to the modern [[Turkish language|Turkish]] phonology and orthography. Some sultans had two names that they chose to use alternatively in reference to their legacy. While the two palaces built by Alaeddin Keykubad&nbsp;I carry the names [[Kubadabad Palace]] and Keykubadiye Palace, he named his mosque in Konya as [[Alâeddin Mosque]] and the port city of [[Alanya]] he had captured as "[[Alaiye]]". Similarly, the medrese built by [[Kaykhusraw I]] in Kayseri, within the complex (''[[külliye]]'') dedicated to his sister [[Gevher Nesibe]], was named Gıyasiye Medrese, and the one built by [[Kaykaus I]] in Sivas as Izzediye Medrese.{{Cn|date=January 2021}} 

{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Sultan
!Reign
!Notes
|- style="background:#fff;"
|1. [[Qutalmish]]
|1060–1064
|Contended with [[Alp Arslan]] for succession to the [[Seljuk Empire|Imperial Seljuk]] throne.
|-
|2. [[Suleiman ibn Qutulmish]]
|1075–1077 ''[[de facto]]'' rules Turkmen around [[İznik]] and [[İzmit]];<br />1077–1086 recognised Sultan of [[Rûm]] by [[Malik-Shah I]] of the [[Great Seljuks]]
|Founder of Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate with capital in İznik
|- style="background:#fff;"
|3. [[Kilij Arslan I]]
|1092–1107
|First sultan in [[Konya]]
|-
|4. [[Malik Shah (Rûm)|Malik Shah]]
|1107–1116
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
|5. [[Mesud I]]
|1116–1156
|
|-
|6. [[Kilij Arslan II|'Izz al-Din Kilij Arslan II]]
|1156–1192
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
|7. [[Kaykhusraw I|Giyath al-Din Kaykhusraw I]]
|1192–1196
|First reign
|-
|8. [[Suleiman II (Rûm)|Rukn al-Din Suleiman II]]
|1196–1204
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
|9. [[Kilij Arslan III]]
|1204–1205
|
|-
|(7.) [[Kaykhusraw I|Giyath al-Din Kaykhusraw I]]
|1205–1211
|Second reign
|- style="background:#fff;"
|10. [[Kaykaus I|'Izz al-Din Kayka'us I]]
|1211–1220
|
|-
|11. [[Kayqubad I|'Ala al-Din Kayqubad I]]
|1220–1237
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
|12. [[Kaykhusraw II|Giyath al-Din Kaykhusraw II]]
|1237–1246
|After his death, sultanate split until 1260 when [[Kilij Arslan IV]] remained the sole ruler
|-
|13. [[Kaykaus II|'Izz al-Din Kayka'us II]]
|1246–1262
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
|14. [[Kilij Arslan IV|Rukn al-Din Kilij Arslan IV]]
|1249–1266
|
|-
|15. [[Kayqubad II|'Ala al-Din Kayqubad II]]
|1249–1254
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
|16. [[Kaykhusraw III|Giyath al-Din Kaykhusraw III]]
|1266–1284
|
|-
|17. [[Mesud II|Giyath al-Din Masud II]]
|1282–1296
|First reign
|- style="background:#fff;"
|18. [[Kayqubad III|'Ala al-Din Kayqubad III]]
|1298–1302
|
|-
|(17.) [[Mesud II|Giyath al-Din Masud II]]
|1303–1308
|Second reign
|}


===Family tree===
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{{tree chart|boxstyle=background:AliceBlue;| | | | | | | | |Aa | | | | | | | | |Aa='''[[Kilij Arslan II]]'''<br>(1156–1192)}}
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{{tree chart|boxstyle=background:AliceBlue;| | | | |Aa | | | | | |Bb| | | | | | |Bb='''[[Keyhusrev I]]'''<br>(1192–1196) & (1205–1211)|Aa='''[[Suleiman II (Rûm)|Suleyman II]]'''<br>(1196–1204)}}
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===Comparative genealogy===
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border="1" style="width:77%; text-align:center;"
!<small>The comparative genealogy of the Sultanate of Rûm with their contemporary neighbors in [[Central Asia]] </small>
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{{tree chart|boxstyle=background:PaleTurquoise;| | | | | | | | |SEL | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |ALT | | | | | | | | | |SEL='''[[Seljuk (warlord)|Seljuk Beg]]'''<br />''The founder of <br /> Seljuk dynasty''|ALT=[[Altun Tash]]<br /><small>(1017–1032)</small>|boxstyle_ALT=background-color:Aquamarine;|boxstyle_SEL=background-color:PaleTurquoise;border:4px solid #0000FF;}}
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{{tree chart|boxstyle=background:AliceBlue;| | | | | | | | |ARS | | MIK |v|MOD |v| YUS | | YUN | | MUS | | |Ii| |Jj| YUN=Yûnus<ref name="Râvendî">Râvendî, Muhammed b. Ali, ''Râhatü’s-sudûr,'' (Ateş Publications), vol. I, p. 85.</ref><ref name="Müstevfî">Müstevfî, ''Târîḫ-i Güzîde,'' (Nevâî Publications), p. 426.</ref> | YUS=Yûsuf Inal<ref name="Zahîrüddîn">Zahîrüddîn-i Nîsâbûrî, ''[[:tr:Selçuknâme|Selcûḳnâme]],'' (Muhammed Ramazânî Publications), [[Tahran]] 1332, p. 10.</ref><ref name="Reşîdüddin">[[Rashid-al-Din Hamadani|Reşîdüddin Fazlullāh-ı Hemedânî]], ''[[Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh|Câmiʿu’t-tevârîḫ]],'' (Ahmed Ateş Publications), [[Ankara]] 1960, vol. II/5, p. 5.</ref>| MUS=[[:tr:Musa Yabgu|Mûsâ]]<ref name="İnanç1">{{cite book|author=Osman Gazi Özgüdenli| title=MÛSÂ YABGU|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/musa-yabgu|volume=EK-2|date=2016|publisher=[[Diyanet|TDV]] [[İslâm Ansiklopedisi]]|place=[[Istanbul]]|pages=324–325}}</ref>''(İnanç)''Yabgu | MOD=The mother of<br />Toghrul I, Chaghri,<br />Ibrahim & Artash | MIK=[[Mikail (son of Seljuk)|Mikail ibn Seljuk]]|Ii=[[Harun, Ghaznavid Governor of Khwarezm|Harun]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1032–1035)</small>|Jj=[[Ismail Khandan]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1035–1041)</small>| ARS='''[[Arslan Yabgu]]'''<br />''Chief of Seljuk dynasty''|boxstyle_MOD= background-color:LightCyan;border:3px solid DarkGreen;|boxstyle_Ii= background-color:Aquamarine;|boxstyle_Jj=background-color:Aquamarine;|boxstyle_ARS=background-color:PaleTurquoise;border:5px solid #0000FF;}}
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{{tree chart|boxstyle=background:AliceBlue;| | | | |Dd|v|AA| |Bb| |MAH |!|BAR | |Ee|-|Ff| |Cc| |!|Ii|Ii=[[Ekinchi (Khwarazm Shah)|Ekinchi]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1097)</small>|AA='''[[Kilij Arslan I]]'''<br>(''r.'' 1092–1107)| | |BAR=[[Barkiyaruq]]<ref name="Selçuklular1">{{cite book|author=Sümer, Faruk| title=SELÇUKLULAR|url=https://cdn.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/36/C36015912.pdf|volume=36|date=2009|publisher=[[Diyanet|TDV]] [[İslâm Ansiklopedisi]]|place=[[Istanbul]]|isbn= 978-9-7538-9566-8|pages=365–371}}</ref><br />(''r''. 1092–1104)|boxstyle_BAR= background-color:LightCyan;border:6px solid DarkGreen;|MAH=[[Mahmud I of Great Seljuk|Mahmud I]]<ref name="TerkenHatun">{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|author=Bezer, Gülay Öğün|title=TERKEN HATUN, the mother of MAHMÛD I|url=https://cdn.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/40/C40013256.pdf|volume=40|page=510}} [[Terken Khatun (wife of Malik-Shah I)]].</ref><ref name="Melikşah">{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|author=Özaydın, Abdülkerim|title=MELİKŞAH|url=https://cdn.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/29/C29009379.pdf|volume=29|pages=54–57}}</ref><ref name="Berkyaruk">{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|author=Özaydın, Abdülkerim|title=BERKYARUK|url=https://cdn.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/5/C05002147.pdf|volume=5|pages=514–516}}</ref><br />(''r''. 1092–1094)|boxstyle_MAH= background-color:LightCyan;border:4px solid DarkGreen;|Dd=Ayisha<ref name="AnadoluSelçukluları"/> Khātun<br />(''r.'' in [[Malatya]])|Bb=Kulan Arslan (Dāvûd)<ref name="AnadoluSelçukluları"/>|Cc= [[Iranshah ibn Turanshah|Îrânshah]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1097–1101)</small>|boxstyle_Cc= background-color:#E9FFDB;|boxstyle_Dd= background-color:Seashell;|boxstyle_Ii=background-color:Aqua;|boxstyle_AA=background-color:PaleTurquoise;border:6px solid #0000FF;|Ee= [[Arslan Shah I]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1101–1142)</small>|boxstyle_Ee= background-color:#E9FFDB;|Ff=[[:az:Məhəmmədşah|Muhammad I Mālīk Shah]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1142–1156)</small>|boxstyle_Ff= background-color:#E9FFDB;}}
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{{tree chart|boxstyle=background:AliceBlue;| | | | |GA | |Aa | |Dd | |SAN | |MAH| |Ff| |Jj|F|Gg| | |Ii|Ii=ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn [[Atsiz|Ātsız]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1127–1156)</small>|SAN=[[Ahmad Sanjar]]<br />(''r''. 1118–1153)<br />Last Sultan of The [[Great Seljuk]]|Aa='''Rukn ad-Dīn [[Mesud I|Mas'ūd I]]'''<br>(''r''. 1116–1156)|boxstyle_SAN= background-color:#00CC99;border:7px solid DarkGreen;|GA=[[Gündüz Alp]]<ref name="Düstûrnâme">[[Enveri|Enverî]], ''Düstûrnâme-i Enverî,'' pp. 78–80, 1464.</ref>|boxstyle_GA= background-color:#F5FFFA;|Dd=Malīk Arab<ref name="AnadoluSelçukluları"/><br /> (''r.'' 1116–1127) <br />in [[Ankara]]|boxstyle_Aa=background-color:PaleTurquoise;border:7px solid #0000FF;|boxstyle_Ii=background-color:Aqua;|MAH=[[Mahmud II of Great Seljuk|Mahmud II]]<ref name="IrakSelçuks"/><ref name="MahmudBinTapar">{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|author=Özaydın, Abdülkerim|title=MAHMÛD b. MUHAMMED TAPAR|url=https://cdn.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/27/C27008916.pdf|volume=27|pages=371–372}}</ref><br /><small>(''r''. 1118–1131)</small><br />[[Seljuk dynasty#Seljuk sultans of Hamadan|First sultan]] of<br />The [[Persian Iraq|Iraqi]] [[Seljuks]]|boxstyle_MAH= background-color:LightCyan;border:5px solid DarkGreen;|Ff=[[Tughril II|Toghrul II]]<ref name="IrakSelçuks"/><ref name="TuğrulBinTapar">{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|author=Sümer, Faruk|title=TUĞRUL I|url=https://cdn.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/41/C41013431.pdf|volume=41|pages=341–342}}</ref><br /><small>(''r''. 1132–1134)</small><br />[[Masud of Great Seljuq|Masud]]<ref name="IrakSelçuks"/><ref name="MesudBinTapar">{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|author=Sümer, Faruk|title=MES‘ÛD b. MUHAMMED TAPAR|url=https://cdn.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/29/C29009546.pdf|volume=29|pages=349–351}}</ref><br /><small>(''r''. 1134–1152)</small>|boxstyle_Ff= background-color:LightCyan;border:5px solid DarkGreen;|Gg=[[Qizil Arslan]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1191)<br />''de facto ruler of [[Toghrul III]]''</small><br />[[Atabeg]] of the [[Eldiguzids]]|boxstyle_Gg= background-color:Moccasin;border:3px solid DarkGreen;|Jj=[[Suleiman-Shah]]<ref name="IrakSelçuks"/><br /><small>(''r''. 1159–1160)</small>|boxstyle_Jj= background-color:LightCyan;border:3px solid DarkGreen;}}
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{{tree chart|boxstyle=background:AliceBlue;| | | | |Bb | |Aa | |Gg | |MAH | |QAW | |Ff|-|TOG|J| |Hh|v|Ii|Ii=Tāj ad-Dīn<br />[[Il-Arslan|İl-Arslan]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1156–1172)</small>|QAW=[[Malik-Shah III]]<ref name="IrakSelçuks"/><br /><small>(''r''. 1152–1153)</small><br />[[Muhammad II of Great Seljuq|Muhammad II]]<ref name="IrakSelçuks"/><br /><small>(''r''. 1153–1159)</small>|boxstyle_QAW= background-color:LightCyan;border:3px solid DarkGreen;|MAL='''5.[[Malik-Shah III]]'''<ref name="IrakSelçuks"/><br />(''r''. 1152–1153)|Aa='''ʿIzz ad-Dīn<br />[[Kilij Arslan II]]'''<br />(''r''. 1156–1192)|TOG=[[Toghrul III]]<ref name="IrakSelçuks"/><ref name="TuğrulTheThirdBinArslanşah">{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|author=Sümer, Faruk|title=Ebû Tâlib TUĞRUL b. ARSLANŞAH b. TUĞRUL|url=https://cdn.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/41/C41013432.pdf|volume=41|pages=342–344}}</ref><br /><small>(''r''. 1177–1191, 1192–1194)</small><br />[[Seljuk dynasty#Seljuk sultans of Hamadan|Last sultan]]|boxstyle_TOG= background-color:#ACE1AF;border:5px solid DarkGreen;|Bb=[[Danismendli]] Grooms [[Yağıbasan]] <small>([[Sivas]])</small> & [[Melik Zünnun|ZūnNūn]] <small>([[Kayseri]])</small>|Gg=Malīk Shāhīn Shāh <small>([[Ankara]], [[Çankırı]], [[Kastamonu]])</small>; Daulat|Hh=[[Terken Khatun (wife of Il-Arslan)|Terken Khatun]]|boxstyle_Bb= background-color:LavenderBlush;|boxstyle_Aa=background-color:PaleTurquoise;border:6px solid #0000FF;|boxstyle_Ii=background-color:Aqua;|boxstyle_Hh=background-color:Aqua;|Ff=[[:az:Arslan şah (İraq)|Arslan-Shah]]<ref name="IrakSelçuks"/><ref name="ArslanşahBinTuğrul">{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|author=Sümer, Faruk|title=ARSLANŞAH b. TUĞRUL |url=https://cdn.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/3/C03001268.pdf|volume=3|pages=404–406}}</ref><br />(''r''. 1160–1177)|boxstyle_Ff= background-color:LightCyan;border:5px solid DarkGreen;|Jj=[[:az:II Turanşah|Turan II Shah]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1177–1183)</small><br />[[Muhammad-Shah ibn Bahram-Shah|Muhammad II]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1183–1187)</small>|boxstyle_Jj= background-color:#E9FFDB;|MAH=[[Dawud of Great Seljuk|Dawud]]<ref name="IrakSelçuks">{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|author=Sümer, Faruk|title=IRAK SELÇUKLULARI|url=https://cdn.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/36/C36015921.pdf|volume=36|page=387}}</ref><br />(''r''. 1131–1132)|boxstyle_MAH= background-color:LightCyan;border:2px solid DarkGreen;}}
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{{tree chart|boxstyle=background:AliceBlue;| | | | |Hh| |Ff|j|Cc|v|Aa|v|Bb|-|Ee| |Dd|:|Gg| | |Mm||Mm=<small>[[Ögedei]] established the [[Mongol conquest of Central Asia|Mongol rule]]<br />in [[Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia|Khwarezmia]]<br />(''r''. 1229–1241)</small>|Aa='''Ghiyāth ad-Dīn<br>[[Keyhusrev II|Kay Khusraw II]]'''<br />(''r.'' 1237–1246)|Bb=[[Gurju Khatun]] ''([[Bagrationi dynasty]] of [[Georgians]])''|Cc=Bardūlīya Khātun (Prodoulia)|Ff=[[Shams al-Din Isfahani|Sāhīp Shams<br />ad-Dīn Īsfahānī (1246–1249)]]<ref group="Note">Grand Vizier [[Shams al-Din Isfahani|Sāhīp Shams ad-Dīn Īsfahānī]] ruled the country on behalf of ʿIzz ad-Dīn [[Kaykaus II|Kay Kāwus II]] between 1246 and 1249</ref>|Hh=Jalāl ad-Dīn<br />Kay Farīdûn<br /><small>([[Koyulhisar]])</small>|Dd=ʿIzz ad-Dīn<br />Kilij Arslan,<br />Rukn ad-Dīn and two daughters|Ee=Mu‘in ad-Dīn [[Mu‘in al-Din Suleyman|Suleyman]]<ref group="Note">Grand Vizier [[Pervâne|Parwāna]] [[Mu‘in al-Din Suleyman]] ruled the country on behalf of Ghiyāth ad-Dīn [[Keyhusrev III|Kay Khusraw III]] between 1266 and 2 August 1277 (1 [[Rabi' al-awwal]] 676)</ref> <small>([[Pervâne|'''Parwāna''']])</small>|boxstyle_Ee= background-color:MistyRose;|boxstyle_Ff= background-color:#FAE7B5;|boxstyle_Dd= background-color:PeachPuff;|Gg=Mugisū'd-Dīn Toghrul Shāh <small>([[Elbistan]])</small><br />Muizū'd-Dīn Kāysar Shāh <small>([[Malatya]])</small>|boxstyle_Aa=background-color:PaleTurquoise;border:6px solid #0000FF;|boxstyle_Mm= background-color:Coral;}} 
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{{tree chart|boxstyle=background:AliceBlue;| | | | |Ff| |Dd| |Bb| |Aa|.|Cc| |Ee| |Nn| |Mm| |,|Hh|Hh=<small>[[Möngke]] appointed [[Hulagu]], the son of [[Tolui]], as [[Il khan]] of the [[Division of the Mongol Empire|Mongol Empire]] in 1253</small>|Ff=Karîm ad-Dīn [[Kerîmeddin Karaman Bey|Karaman Bey]]<br /><small>(''r''. 1256–1263)</small><br /><small>([[Karamanids|Karamanoğulları]]<br />[[Anatolian beyliks|Anatolian Beylik]])</small>||Aa='''Rukn ad-Dīn<br />[[Kilij Arslan IV]]'''<br /><small>[[:tr:Celâleddin Karatay|(''r.'' 1249–1254)]] & <br />(''r.'' 1257–1262) & [[Pervâne|<br />(1262–1266)]]</small><ref group="Note">Between 1262 and 1266 Rukn ad-Dīn [[Kilij Arslan IV]] reigned alone</ref>|Bb='''ʿIzz ad-Dīn<br />[[Kaykaus II|Kay Kāwus II]]''' <small>[[Shams al-Din Isfahani|<br />(1246–1249)]]</small><ref group="Note">Between 1246 and 1249 ʿIzz ad-Dīn [[Kaykaus II|Kay Kāwus II]] reigned alone</ref> <small> [[:tr:Celâleddin Karatay|<br />(''r.'' 1249–1254)]] & <br />(''r.'' 1254–1262)</small><ref group="Note">ʿIzz ad-Dīn [[Kaykaus II|Kay Kāwus II]] was defeated on October 14, 1256 in [[Sultanhanı]] ([[Sultan Han]], [[Aksaray]]) and he acceded to the throne on May 1, 1257 again after the departure of [[Baiju Noyan]] from [[Anatolia]]</ref>|Cc='''ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn [[Kayqubad II|Kay Qubād II]]''' <ref group="Note">Between 1249 and 1254 triple reign of three brothers</ref> <small>[[:tr:Celâleddin Karatay|<br />(''r.'' 1249–1254)]]</small>|Dd=Unknown son{{sfn|Shukurov|2016|p=108–109}}| boxstyle_Dd= background-color:#FFFFCC;|boxstyle_Aa=background-color:PaleTurquoise;border:5px solid #0000FF;|boxstyle_Bb=background-color:PaleTurquoise;border:5px solid #0000FF;|boxstyle_Cc=background-color:PaleTurquoise;border:5px solid #0000FF;|Mm=Nasirū'd-Dīn Barkyāruk Shāh <small>([[Niksar]], [[Koyulhisar]])</small><br />|Nn=Nizāmū'd-Dīn Argun Shāh <small>([[Amasya]])</small><br />Sanjar Shāh<br /><small>([[Ereğli, Konya|Ereğli]])</small>|boxstyle_Ff= background-color:#F7E7CE;|boxstyle_Hh= background-color:LightPink;|Ee=[[Pervâneoğlu|Pervâneoğulları]] [[Anatolian beyliks|Anatolian Beylik]] <small>(established in<br />[[Sinop, Turkey|Sinop]] in 1277)</small>|boxstyle_Ee= background-color:MistyRose;}} 
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*'''The list of important historical events'''
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*<small>'''[[Chaghri Beg]] defeated [[Khwarazmshah|Shah]]-[[Shah Malik|Malik ibn Ali]] in [[Makran]] in 1042 and ended [[Ghaznevid]] rule in [[Khwarazm]]'''</small>
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*<small>'''[[Alp Arslan]] defeated [[Byzantine Emperor]] [[Romanos IV Diogenes]] in the [[Battle of Malazgirt]] in 1071'''</small>
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*<small>'''The [[First Crusade]]'''</small>
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*<small>'''[[Ala ad-Din Tekish]]-[[Khwarazmshah]] ended The [[Great Seljuk Empire]] in [[Ray, Iran|Ray]], [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]] in 1194'''</small>
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*<small>'''Zenith of [[Anatolian Seljuks]]'''</small>
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*<small>'''[[Kayqubad the Great]] defeated [[Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu]] in the [[Battle of Yassıçimen]] in 1230'''</small>
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*<small>'''[[Chormaqan]] defeated [[Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu|Mangubartī]] in the [[Battle of Indus]] on August 1231 and ended [[Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia|Khwarazmshahs]]'''</small>
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*<small>'''[[Baiju Noyan]] defeated [[Kaykhusraw II|Kay Khusraw II]] in the [[Battle of Kösedağ]] in 1243 and [[Anatolian Seljuks]] became a [[vassal state]] of [[Mongol Empire]]'''</small>
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*<small>'''[[Güyük]] designated [[Kilij Arslan IV]] the [[Sultan of Rum]] in 1248'''</small>
*<small>'''Triple reign''' [[:tr:Celâleddin Karatay|(1249–1254)]]<ref name="AnadoluSelçukluları"/></small>
*<small>'''[[Hulagu]] captured [[Alamut Castle|Alamut]] in 1256'''</small>
*<small>'''[[Anatolian Seljuks]] were divided into two by a firman of [[Möngke Khan]] in 1258/1259'''</small>
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*<small>'''[[Ilkhanate]] gained independence from the [[Mongol Empire]] in 1295 after the demise of [[Kublai Khan]] on February 18, 1294'''</small>
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*<small>'''[[Ottoman State]] [[Foundation of the Ottoman Empire|emerged]] in [[Söğüt]], [[Bilecik Province|Bilecik]] in 1299'''</small>
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==See also==
*[[Babai revolt|Babai Revolt]]
*[[Byzantine–Seljuk Wars]]
*[[List of battles involving the Seljuk Empire]]
*[[Rûm Eyalet]], Ottoman Empire

==Notes==
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==Footnotes==
{{Reflist|group=Note|30em}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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==External links==
* {{cite web|url=http://archnet.org/library/pubdownloader/pdf/8967/doc/DPC1304.pdf|title=The concepts that shape Anatolian Seljuq caravanserais|author=Yavuz, Ayşıl Tükel|publisher=[[ArchNet]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704025025/http://archnet.org/library/pubdownloader/pdf/8967/doc/DPC1304.pdf|archive-date=2007-07-04}}
* {{cite web|url = http://archnet.org/library/places/places.tcl?country_code=tr|title = List of Seljuk edifices|publisher = [[ArchNet]]|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070405010452/http://archnet.org/library/places/places.tcl?country_code=tr|archive-date = 2007-04-05}}
* {{cite web |url = http://www.turkishhan.org|title = Examples of caravanserais built by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate|author=Katharine Branning|publisher=Turkish Hans}}

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