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After steamrolling his way through Anatolia, with a pause of a few years for consolidation, why did Suleiman ibn Qutalmish, founder of the Sultanate of Rum, go south to conquer Antioch, coming into conflict with his Seljuk kinsmen, ultimately dying at their hands? Why, when Rhomania was being invaded by the Norman Sicilians, did Suleiman not take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity and attempt to finish what he had started?
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