Siege of Rumkale

Siege of Rumkale
	; The Rumkale fortress
Date	691 AH/1292 AD
Location	Rumkale, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (in modern-day Gaziantep Province, Urfa, Turkey)37°16′19″N 37°50′17″E / 37.27194°N 37.83806°E
Result	Mamluk victory
Belligerents
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia;	Mamluk Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Stefanos IV (POW)	Al-Ashraf Khalil; Sanjar al-Shuja‘i; Ibn al-Sal'us; Sharaf al-Din bin al-Khutair †; Shihab al-Din bin Rukn al-Din, Emir of Jandar †; Sayf al-Din Aqjaba (WIA)

The siege of Rumkale or the fall of Rumkale took place in 691 AH/1292 AD and resulted in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia losing the castle of Rumkale to the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt.^[1]^[2]^[3]

^ al-Maqrizi, Taqi al-Din (1997). السلوك لمعرفة دول الملوك vol.2 (in Arabic). دار الكتب العلمية. pp. 233, 234, 235.
^ Stewart, A. D. (2006). Qal'at al-Rūm/Hromgla/Rumkale and the Mamluk Siege of 691ah/1292ce. In H. N. Kennedy (Ed.), Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria: From the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period (pp. 269-280). Brill.
^ Kurd Ali, Muhammad (1928). خطط الشام الجزء الثاني (in Arabic). Damascus, Syria: المطبعة الحديثة. p. 136.