Major conflict969 CE

Fatimid Conquest of Egypt

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Fustat · Giza · Cairo

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Jawhar al-Siqilli's bloodless conquest of Egypt for the Fatimid Caliph al-Mu'izz, founding the city of Cairo.

Belligerents2

Fatimid Caliphate
Ikhshidid Egypt

ON THE MAPFatimid Caliphate

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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