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Kilij Arslan I
Kilij Arslan I was sultan of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum from 1092 to 1107. He destroyed the People's Crusade in 1096 but lost his capital Nicaea to the First Crusade in 1097 and was defeated at Dorylaeum. He rebuilt his state in central Anatolia and drowned in the Khabur river in 1107 after a defeat in northern Mesopotamia.
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