Siege of Rumkale

Siege of Rumkale

The Rumkale fortress
Date691 AH/1292 AD
Location
Rumkale, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (in modern-day Gaziantep Province, Urfa, Turkey)
37°16′19″N 37°50′17″E / 37.27194°N 37.83806°E / 37.27194; 37.83806
Result Mamluk victory
Belligerents
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
 Mamluk Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Stefanos IV  (POW) Al-Ashraf Khalil
Sanjar al-Shuja‘i
Ibn al-Sal'us
Sharaf al-Din bin al-Khutair  †
Shihab al-Din bin Rukn al-Din, Emir of Jandar  †
Sayf al-Din Aqjaba  (WIA)

The siege of Rumkale or the fall of Rumkale took place in 691 AH/1292 AD and resulted in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia losing the castle of Rumkale to the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ al-Maqrizi, Taqi al-Din (1997). السلوك لمعرفة دول الملوك vol.2 (in Arabic). دار الكتب العلمية. pp. 233, 234, 235.
  2. ^ Stewart, A. D. (2006). Qal'at al-Rūm/Hromgla/Rumkale and the Mamluk Siege of 691ah/1292ce. In H. N. Kennedy (Ed.), Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria: From the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period (pp. 269-280). Brill.
  3. ^ Kurd Ali, Muhammad (1928). خطط الشام الجزء الثاني (in Arabic). Damascus, Syria: المطبعة الحديثة. p. 136.