Sultanate o Rum
The Sultanate o Rum or Seljuk Sultanate o Rum (Persie: سلجوقیان روم, Saljūqiyān-i Rūm, Modren Turkis: Anadolu Selçuklu Devleti or Rum Sultanlığı) wis a medieval Turko-Persian,[4] Sunni Muslim[5] state in Anatolie. It existit frae 1077 tae 1307, wi caipitals first at İznik an then at Konya. Syne the court o the sultanate wis heichly mobile, ceities lik Kayseri an Sivas an aa functioned at times as caipitals. At its hicht, the sultanate stretched athort central Anatolie, frae the shoreline o Antalya an Alanya on the Mediterranean coast tae the territory o Sinop on the Black Sea. In the east, the sultanate absorbed ither Turkis states an reached Loch Van. Its wastrenmaist leemit wis near Denizli an the gates o the Aegean basin.
Sultanate o Seljuq سلجوقیان روم Saljūqiyān-i Rūm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1077–1307 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 Expansion o the Sultanate in c.1100-1240. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Sultanate | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Caipital | Nicaea (İznik) Iconium (Konya) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common leids | Persian (offeecial & leeteratur)[1][2] Auld Anatolian Turkish[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sultans | |||||||||||||||||||||||
• 1060–1077 | Kutalmish | ||||||||||||||||||||||
• 1303–1308 | Mesud II | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||||
• Diveesion frae the Great Seljuq Empire | 1077 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1307 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aurie | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1243 | 400,000 km2 (150,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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References
eedit- ↑ Grousset, Rene, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia, (Rutgers University Press, 2002), 157; "...the Seljuk court at Konya adopted Persian as its official language.".
- ↑ Bernard Lewis, Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire, (University of Oklahoma Press, 1963), 29; "The literature of Seljuk Anatolia was almost entirely in Persian...".
- ↑ Encyclopedia Britannica: "Modern Turkish is the descendant of Ottoman Turkish and its predecessor, so-called Old Anatolian Turkish, which was introduced into Anatolia by the Seljuq Turks in the late 11th century ad." [1]
- ↑ Bernard Lewis, Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire, 29; "Even when the land of Rum became politically independent, it remained a colonial extension of Turco-Persian culture which had its centers in Iran and Central Asia","The literature of Seljuk Anatolia was almost entirely in Persian...".
- ↑ Institutionalisation of Science in the Medreses of pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Turkey, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, ed. Gürol Irzik, Güven Güzeldere, (Springer, 2005), 266.