Kilij Arslan III

Kilij Arslan III
Seljuq sultans of Rum
Reign1204-1205
PredecessorSüleymanshah II
SuccessorKaykhusraw I
Died1205
IssueGawhar Khatun (daughter)
FatherSüleymanshah II[1]

Kilij Arslan III (Old Anatolian Turkish: قِلِج اَرسلان, Persian: قلیچ ارسلان Qilij Arslān; Modern Turkish: Kılıç Arslan, meaning "Sword Lion") was the Seljuq Sultan of Rûm for a short period between 1204 and 1205 succeeding his father Suleiman II.[1] He was succeeded by his uncle Kaykhusraw I. Kilij Arslan had a daughter named Gawhar Khatun.[2]

  1. ^ a b Claude Cahen, The Formation of Turkey: The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth, transl. & ed. P.M. Holt, (Pearson Education Limited, 2001), 42.
  2. ^ "Uyanış Büyük Selçuklu Gevher Hatun kimdir, gerçek adı ne, nasıl öldü? Leyla Feray kaç yaşında, hangi dizilerde oynadı?". CNN Türk (in Turkish). Retrieved 18 March 2021.