fwo_630483 - ÉGYPTE - SULTANS D'ÉGYPTE - MAMELOUKS Ashrafi XVe s.

EGYPT - SULTANS OF EGYPT - MAMLUKS

(1250-1517)

Selim I, Ottoman sultan, seizes Cairo and Egypt becomes a Turkish pashalik. The country falls under the thumb of the Mamluks. They were defeated at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte. This is the end of Mamluk rule in Egypt CHECK THE DATES....