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Qutalmish

d. 1064 · 11th century

Qutalmish was a Seljuk prince, a cousin of Sultan Tughril, who took part in the Seljuk conquests in Iran and Iraq in the mid-eleventh century. He contested the succession after Tughril's death and died in 1064 fighting Sultan Alp Arslan. His son Suleiman ibn Qutalmish founded the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia.

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