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Mamluk Sultanate

1250 – 1517
SultanateAfrica

Slave-soldier sultanate ruling Egypt and Syria that halted the Mongols and held the Hejaz.

Conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the Ottoman–Mamluk War: Sultan al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri died at the Battle of Marj Dabiq on 24 August 1516; his successor Tuman Bay II, the last Mamluk sultan, was defeated near Giza on 2 April 1517 and executed by hanging at Bab Zuwayla on 13 April 1517, completing the Ottoman conquest of Egypt.

Borders in 1496 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Mamluk Sultanate — the shape you scrub through changes in 1250 · 1386 · 1496.

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