Mamluk Egyptian Expansion (1270s)

Name: Mamluk Egyptian Expansion (1270s)
Start: 1271
End: 1280

Type Event Region Middle East Time 1271–1280

In the 1270s the Mamluk Sultanate under Baybars I and his successor Qalawun continued consolidating rule over Egypt and the Levant, attacking Crusade…

Timeline

1271Krak (Hosn al-Akrad) · SyriaSultan Baybars I besieged and compelled the Hospitaller order to surrender Krak, further squeezing Crusader positions in Syria and consolidating Mamluk control over the coastal corridor.
1277Damascus · SyriaBaybars I died of illness in Damascus; his son-in-law Saif al-Din Qalawun was raised to the throne by the military elite, continuing the hardline policy toward the Mongols and Crusaders and reforming the sultanate's finances and army.
1280Syrian frontier · SyriaIlkhan Ghazan again invaded Syria around 1280; Qalawun assembled the Mamluk forces and prepared for battle, laying the groundwork for the Battle of Marj al-Sufar the following year and maintaining the Mamluks' status as the military bulwark of the Islamic world.

Sources

The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. 1: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517 — Carl F. Petry (1998)
A History of the Crusades, Vol. 3: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries — Kenneth M. Setton (1975)