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Seljuk Remnant Forces in Anatolia
Around 1211 the Great Seljuk Empire had long dissolved, leaving only the Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia as the nominal Seljuk successor, alongside Dani…
Timeline
- 1211Konya · KonyaIn 1211 Kaykhusraw I was killed fighting the Empire of Trebizond, and his brother Kaykaus I succeeded him; the capital Konya still bore the Seljuk sultan title, but territory and military strength no longer matched the zenith.
- 1211Malatya · MalatyaThe Danishmendid dynasty controlled southeastern Anatolia and the Artuqid dynasty held Malatya and elsewhere; each remnant polity nominally acknowledged the Rum sultan or the Abbasid caliph but in practice carved out its own domain, and the unified Seljuk order no longer existed.
- 1211Western Anatolian frontier · AnatoliaThe Sultanate of Rum and the Nicaean Byzantine Empire continued to contest the western frontier; Turkic nomadic and settled migrants penetrated deep into the plateau, forming a fragmented political landscape of multiple polities and ethnic groups that laid the groundwork for the later rise of the Ottomans.
Sources
- A History of the Seljuks: Ibrahim Kafesoğlu's Interpretation and the Resulting Controversy — Gary Leiser (trans. and ed.) (1988)
- The Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1A — P. M. Holt et al. (eds.) (1970)