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Kilij Arslan III

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Kilij Arslan III
Seljuq sultans of Rum
Reign1204-1205
PredecessorSüleymanshah II
SuccessorKaykhusraw I
Died1205
FatherSüleymanshah II[1]

Kilij Arslan III (Old Anatolian Turkish: قِلِج اَرسلان, Persian: قلج ارسلان Qilij Arslān; Modern Turkish: Kılıç Arslan, meaning "Sword Lion") was the Seljuq Sultan of Rûm for a short period between 1204 and 1205 succeeding his father Suleiman II.[1] He was succeeded by his uncle Kaykhusraw I.

References

  1. ^ a b Claude Cahen, The Formation of Turkey: The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth, transl. & ed. P.M. Holt, (Pearson Education Limited, 2001), 42.
Preceded by Sultan of Rûm
1204–1205
Succeeded by