)
, predecessor =
Al-Said Barakah
, successor =
Al-Mansur Qalawun
, spouse =
, issue =
, house = Zahiri
, dynasty =
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Given name
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Surname ...
, father =
al-Zahir Baibars al-Bunduqdari
, mother =
, birth_date = 1272
, birth_place =
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo met ...
, death_date =
, death_place =
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth ( Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...
, date of burial =
, place of burial =
, religion =
Islam
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Badr al-Din Solamish
[ Sülemiş in Turkish ] (1272–1291; ar, بدر الدين سُلامش, royal name: al-Malik al-Adil Badr al-Din Solamish ( ar, الملك العادل بدر الدين سُلامش)) was a
Sultan
Sultan (; ar, سلطان ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it ...
of
Egypt
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in 1279. Born in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo met ...
, he was the son of
Baibars, a sultan of Kipchak origin.
Upon Baibars' death, his son
al-Said Barakah took power, but as he was replacing his father's amirs with his own, three of the more powerful ones banded together and forced Barakah to abdicate after only two years. Barakah was replaced by the seven-year-old Solamish, with
Qalawun, one of the amirs who had forced Barakah to abdicate, as guardian. A few months later, Solamish was deposed by Qalawun, who took the title of sultan for himself.
He died at
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth ( Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...
in 1291.
References
*
Reuven Amitai-Preiss (1995), ''Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Īlkhānid War, 1260-1281'', pp. 179-225. Cambridge University Press, .
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1272 births
1291 deaths
Royalty from Cairo
Bahri sultans
Rulers deposed as children
Medieval child rulers
13th-century Mamluk sultans
People of Cuman descent