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The last ruler of the Great Seljukid State, Sultan Sanjar took the Seljukid throne after defeating his nephew Mahmud in H. 513/1119 C.E. However, he did not come to Isfahan, the capital of the Sultanate and establishing a new administrative region in the west of the state, he appointed his nephew Mahmoud as its ruler. Thus, the Seljukid Sultanate of Iraq was founded. As the sole ruler of the state, Sanjar made Merv the new capital of the Sultanate. Later, Mahmoud, the Sultan of the Seljukid Sultanate of Iraq, transferred the capital from Isfahan to Hemedan and it stayed as the capital of the state until it collapsed. In addition to the above mentioned narrative, some orientalists argued that Sultan Sanjar established another administrative unit called Kurdistan during his reign. This argument depends on the information that Sanjar gave the administration of this province with its capital Bahâr to his niece Suleimanshah even though no source whatsoever was given to support it. Since the reliability of such information is debatable, its content (the names of persons and locations as well as the date) should be tested in the light of extant sources. This article aims to examine the content of the above mentioned information by asking questions such as whether or not Suleimanshah Abûh was the same person with Sultan Suleimanshah or was the date of the event in accordance with the known chronology of the Seljukid Empire. In this paper, these questions will be answered in the light of information in the other sources.

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