470—700 E. SELJUKS OF -RUM
1077—1300
- 470—700 E. SELJUKS OF -RUM
1077—1300 (ASIA MINOR)
- 470 Sulayman i b. Kutlumish.... 1077
- 479 Interregnums 1086
- 485 Kilij-Arslan Dawud . . . . . 1092
(Kilij-Arslan survived till 588,
but divided his dominions among his sons
some years earlier.)
- 500 Malik Shah i . 1106
- 510 Mas'ud I . . 1116
- 551* 'Izz-al-din Kilij-Arslan II . . . .
1156
- 584 Kutb-al-din Malik Shah n .... 1188
- 588 Ghiyath-al-din Kay-Khusru I . . .
1192
- 597 Rukn-al- din Sulayman n . . . . 1200
- 600 Kilij-Arslan III .... . 1203
- 601 Kay-Khusru I restored 1204
- 607 'Izz-al-din Kay-Kawus I 1210
- 616 'Ala-al-din Kay-Kubad I.1219
- In the reign of Ala-ed-din I. of
Rum (1219-36), Nur Sofi,- an
Armenian by birth, and later one
of the most fanatical followers
of Sheikh Baba Elias, established
himself at Konya.
His son Karaman (1223-45)
won the favor of the Sultan, who
gave him his sister in marriage,
made him governor of Selefke, and
granted him Laranda (Karaman).
Karaman
Central Anatolia, Turkey
- 634 Ghiyath-al-din Kay-Khusru
II . . . 1236
- 643 'Izz-al-din Kay-Kawus II . . . . 1245
(In conjunction with his brothers
Kilij-Arslan IV and Kay-Kubad) see Izz-al-din
and Rukn-al-din under the Mongols
- 655 Rukn-al-din Kilij-Arslan IV. 1257 see
Izz-al-din
and Rukn-al-din under the Mongols
- 666 Ghiyath-al-din Kay-Khusru III . . .
1267
- 682 Ghiyath-al-din Mas'ud II .... 1283
(Mas'ud was allowed by the Mongol Abaga
to govern Sivas, Arzanjan and Erzurum,
from the death of his father Kay-Kawus in
677, during the nominal sovereignty of
his cousin Kay-Khusru in, whom he
succeeded in 682. Mas'ud appears to have
been restored to his kingdom on the
deposition of his nephew Kay-Kubad in 700
and to have reigned for four years; but
the last four Seljuks were merely
governors under the Mongols of Persia.)
- 696 'Ala-al-din Kay-Kubad II . . . . 1296
- —700 —1300
[Mongols,
'Othmanli Turks, etc.]
The
Mohammadan Dynasties Chronological And
Genealogical Tables With Historical Introductions
By Stanley Lane-Poole Westminster Archibald
Constable And Company Publishers To The India
Office 14 Parliament Street MDCCCXCIV
THE SELJUK
KINGDOM OF "RUM" (Asia Minor)
While thus
Syria was returning to Moslem rule, although
under Egyptian rather than Turkish auspices, the
interior of Asia Minor remained as seen under the
Seljuks. The sultan of the Turks in that
peninsula had been forced by the Crusaders to
withdraw his capital from Nicaea to Konya
(Iconium). From 1100 well down to 1280 the
Seljuk power in the interior of Asia Minor was by
no means so stable, but that a resolute attack
could have destroyed it altogether. We have seen
how, nevertheless, the Greek Emperors failed ever
to find the resources for such an attack, and
therefore the "Sultans of Iconium"
lived on for nigh two centuries, seldom strong
enough to make themselves well obeyed by the
emirs of the outlying districts, but gradually
(by the mere continuance of their rule in the
region) changing the hinterland of Asia Minor
into a thoroughly Mohammedanized country. During
this era there was a constant trickling of
Turanian nomads into their dominions; mostly
coming apparently in small bands from Central
Asia, forced on by the great upheavals caused by
the Mongols and their rivals. Some of these bands
were probably pagan when they entered Asia Minor,
though they were readily converted to Islam, but
in any case the arrival of these nomads of course
made the problem of preserving civilized life in
the country more difficult than ever.
After
civil wars and dynastic troubles profitless to
follow, about 1300 the power of Kaikobad, the
last Seljuk sultan at Konya, evaporated rather
than was overthrown. His one-time vassal emirs
followed their own pleasures. Thus was presented
the supreme opportunity for the most enterprising
of all these chiefs—Osman I, founder of the
greatness of the Ottomans.
The Turanian invasions of the Near East had
manifestly served to confound the civilization
created alike by the Byzantines and the Saracens.
The intruders from the Far East were, however, in
all cases superior warriors, and kept all their
fighting qualities in their new habitat. The
story of the expansion of the Ottoman Turks
therefore becomes the story of the intrusion of
the spirit of Inner Asia into Europe itself.
A Short History Of The Near East;
From The Founding Of Constantinople (330 A.D. To
1922) by William Stearns Davis, Ph.D. Professor
Of History In The University of Minnesota The
Macmillan Company 1922
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