Kilij Arslan I

Kilij Arslan I

Kilij Arslan ibn Suleiman (Old Anatolian Turkish: قِلِیچ اَرسلان; Persian: قلیچ ارسلان, romanized: Qilij Arslān; Turkish: I. Kılıç Arslan or Kılıcarslan, lit. "Sword Lion") (‎1079–1107) was the Seljuq Sultan of Rum from 1092 until his death in 1107. He ruled the Sultanate during the time of the First Crusade and thus faced the earliest attacks from Christian forces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kilij Arslan I has received more than 453,736 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Kilij Arslan I is the 1,817th most popular politician (down from 1,643rd in 2019).

Kilij Arslan I was the Seljuk Sultan of Rûm from 1092 to 1107. He is most famous for his victory over the Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.