# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/suleyman-shah
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:26:56.664Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/suleyman-shah"
name: "Suleyman Shah"
slug: "suleyman-shah"
description: "A figure more legend than ledger: the grandfather in the Ottoman origin story, though early genealogies couldn't agree whether he or another man held that spot. His tomb became a diplomatic artifact, his name a placeholder for the murky century before empire."
tagline: "Turkish khan"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1167"
deathDate: "1227"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.3
  momentum:             0.6532000555324171
  historical:           21.952492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Politicians"
    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Journalist"
    slug: "journalist"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799152"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Suleyman%20Shah"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleyman_%C5%9Eah"
    title: "Süleyman Şah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85"
    title: "Сулейман Шах"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%85"
    title: "Сюлейман шах"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "সুলেইমান শাহ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sulaiman Schah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%8A%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%BD_%CE%A3%CE%B1%CF%87"
    title: "Σουλεϊμάν Σαχ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Suleyman Shah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سلیمان‌شاه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_Chah"
    title: "Suleiman Chah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "सुलेमान शाह"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Սուլեյման Շահ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Suleyman Shah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Suleyman Shah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "スレイマン・シャー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Süleyman Shah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Süleyman Shah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਸੁਲੇਮਾਨ ਸ਼ਾਹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulejman_Szah"
    title: "Sulejman Szah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%81"
    title: "سلیمان شاہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salom%C3%A3o_X%C3%A1"
    title: "Salomão Xá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleyman_%C8%98ah"
    title: "Suleyman Șah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85"
    title: "Сулейман Шах"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سليمان شاه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سلیمان‌شاه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  According to Ottoman tradition, Suleyman Shah was the son of Kaya Alp and father of Ertuğrul, placing him two generations before Osman I founded the empire in 1299. Early genealogies disputed the line — some named Gündüz Alp as Ertuğrul's father instead. In 1214 he succeeded his father as bey and led a 50,000-strong tribe westward under pressure from Mongol invasion. After migrating to the North Caucasus, thousands of Kayis settled in Erzincan and Ahlat that same year, while other groups scattered across Diyarbakir, Mardin, and Urfa. A tomb near Qal'at Ja'bar has long been associated with him, a relic whose location mattered more to later politics than to any certainty about the man himself.