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Shams al-Din Eldiguz
Shams al-Din Eldiguz was a former Kipchak slave who founded the Eldiguzid dynasty of atabegs of Azerbaijan. Around 1136 the Seljuk sultan Mas'ud made him governor of Arran and guardian of the prince Arslan Shah, whose widowed mother he married. After Arslan Shah became sultan in 1161, Eldiguz was the real ruler of the western Seljuk realm until his death in 1175.
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