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3 hours ago · The Mamluk Sultanate survived a little longer until 1517. Tuman Bay, whom al-Ghuri had left as deputy in Cairo, was hastily and unanimously proclaimed sultan on 10 October 1516. [207] [213] The amirs rejected his plan to confront the next Ottoman advance at Gaza, so instead he prepared a final defense at al-Raydaniyya to the north of Cairo. [207]
- Bahri Mamluks
The Bahri Mamluks (Arabic: المماليك البحرية, romanized:...
- Shajar ad-Durr
Shajar al-Durr (Arabic: شجر الدر, lit. 'Tree of Pearls'),...
- Second Ottoman–Mamluk War
The Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–1517 was the second major...
- List of Mamluk Sultans
The following is a list of Mamluk sultans.The Mamluk...
- Bahri Mamluks
1 day ago · Ma Huan (1403 AD), the Chinese sailor part of the Imperial Chinese fleet under Cheng Ho states the city as a great emporium of trade frequented by merchants from around the world. He makes note of the 20 or 30 mosques built to cater to the religious needs of the Muslims, the unique system of calculation by the merchants using their fingers and ...
3 hours ago · The English word clock first appeared in Middle English as clok, cloke, or clokke. The origin of the word is not known for certain; it may be a borrowing from French or Dutch , and can perhaps be traced to the post-classical Latin clocca ('bell'). 7th century Irish and 9th century Germanic sources recorded clock as meaning 'bell'.
1 day ago · Among other drastic changes, the early Muslim conquests brought about the collapse of the Sasanian Empire and great territorial losses for the Byzantine Empire. Reasons that would provide an explanation for the Muslim victories have been difficult to reconstruct in hindsight, primarily because only fragmentary sources have survived from the period.
- 622–750 CE
- Muslim victory
1 day ago · Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
