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- The capture of Cairo was the final major engagement of the Ottoman Mamluk war of 1516-1517. The city of Cairo, the capital of the Mamluk Sultanate, was sacked and fell into the hands of the Ottoman forces led by Sultan Selim I during the 27 th -30 th January 1517.
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The History of the Mamluk Sultanate, an empire based in Egypt and Syria, spans the period between the mid-13th century, with the overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt, and 1517, when it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Mamluk history is generally divided into the Turkish or Bahri period (1250–1382) and the Circassian or Burji period ...
Sep 5, 2018 · The Tombs of the Mamluks, Cairo, Egypt, 1910s. The Mamluks ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 until 1517, when their dynasty was extinguished by the Ottomans. But Mamluks had first appeared in the Abbasid caliphate in the ninth century and even after their overthrow by the Ottomans they continued to form an important part of Egyptian Islamic ...
When the plague reached Cairo, the Mamluk sultan An-Nasir Hasan fled the city and stayed in his residence Siryaqus outside of the city between the 25 September and 22 December, when the Black Death was present in Cairo. The Black Death in Cairo resulted in the death of 200.000 people, which were a third of the population of the city, and ...
50,000 civilians dead [1] [2] The capture of Cairo was the final major engagement of the Ottoman Mamluk war of 1516-1517. The city of Cairo, the capital of the Mamluk Sultanate, was sacked and fell into the hands of the Ottoman forces led by Sultan Selim I during the 27 th -30 th January 1517. Following Cairo's fall and the subsequent execution ...
- 27-30 January 1517
- Ottoman victory
Islamic Cairo (Arabic: قاهرة المعز, romanized: Qāhira al-Muʿizz, lit. 'Al-Mu'izz's Cairo'), or Medieval Cairo, officially Historic Cairo (القاهرة التاريخية al-Qāhira tārīkhiyya), refers mostly to the areas of Cairo, Egypt, that were built from the Muslim conquest in 641 CE until the city's modern expansion in the 19th century during Khedive Ismail's rule, namely ...
- 523.66 ha (1,294.0 acres)
- 1979 (3rd Session)
- Cultural: (i), (v), (vi)
The Mamluk sultanate emerges from the weakening of the Ayyubid kingdoms in Egypt and Syria (1250–60). Although former military slaves, the Mamluks create the greatest Islamic empire of the later Middle Ages and overcome the threats presented by the Crusaders and Mongols. The Mamluk realm benefits from the east-west trade of silks and spices.
Egypt - Mamluk, Ottoman, 1250-1800: During the Mamluk period Egypt became the unrivaled political, economic, and cultural centre of the eastern Arabic-speaking zone of the Muslim world. Symbolic of this development was the reestablishment in 1261 under the Mamluk rulers of the Abbasid caliphate—destroyed by the Mongols in their sack of Baghdad three years earlier—with the arrival in Cairo ...
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