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Mamluk Sultanate
The Mamluk Sultanate was a slave-soldier regime that ruled Egypt from 1250 to 1517 and long controlled Syria, centered on purchased and militarily tr…
Timeline
- 1250–1382Cairo · CairoTurkic Mamluk officers overthrew the Ayyubid regency and established the Bahri dynasty. The regime was centered on a military slave elite; sultans such as Baybars unified Egypt and Syria and resisted the Mongol westward advance.
- 1382–1517Cairo · CairoAfter Circassian Mamluks took power they still maintained suzerainty over Syria and controlled the spice and slave trade routes; internal strife intensified in the late period, and in 1517 they were defeated by Ottoman forces led by Selim I and incorporated into the empire.
Sources
- Mamlūk https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mamluk
- The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 1: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517 — Carl F. Petry (1998)