The Sultanate of Rûm was a culturally Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim state, established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples (Rûm) of Anatolia...

and the Balkans in the Middle Ages. The Seljuks of the Sultanate of Rum took their name from ar-Rum, the word for the Romans in the Qu'ran. During the...

of the Seljuq Sultanate of Rûm in the latter half of the 13th century. One of the beyliks, that of the Osmanoğlu of the Kayı branch of Oghuz Turks, from...

of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum (1077–1307) is summarized below. After the battles of Pasinler in 1048 and Malazgirt in 1071 Turks founded a number of...

The clan settled in Anatolia, in a region belonging to the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm. Other sources claim that the Kayı clan moved to Anatolia two centuries...

the west. The last surviving Seljuk sultanate to fall was the Sultanate of Rum, which fell in 1308. The founder of the dynasty was Seljuk, a warlord, who...

son of Gündüz Alp. According to this legend, after the death of his father, Ertuğrul and his followers entered the service of the Sultanate of Rum, for...

Asia Minor were assimilated into the budding Ottoman sultanate through conquest or declarations of allegiance. As Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople...

in the 11th century, starting the Turkification process. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243, when it disintegrated...

1161), sultan of the Seljuk Empire Suleiman ibn Qutulmish (d. 1086), founder of the Sultanate of Rum Süleyman Çelebi (1377–1411), co-ruler of the Ottoman...