Empire1250 – 1517 · 267 years
Mamluk Sultanate
Overview
The Mamluk Sultanate, also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries, with Cairo as its capital. It was ruled by a military caste of mamluks headed by a sultan. The sultanate was established with the overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt in 1250 and was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1517. Mamluk history is generally divided into the Turkic or Bahri period (1250–1382) and the Circassian or Burji period (1382–1517), named after the predominant ethnicity or corps of the ruling Mamluks during these respective eras.
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Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1300:Mamluke Sultanate
- SNAPSHOT1300
- MATCHEDMamluke Sultanate
- POLITY TYPEstate
Wars of this empire23
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Major conflict · 300K dead
- Major conflict · 50K dead
- Mamluk-Ilkhanid Wars1260–1323Major conflict
- Ottoman-Mamluk War1516–17Significant · 100K dead
- Significant · 30K dead
- Wars of the Crusader states1099–1291Significant
- Dawit I's campaigns1380–1413Significant
- Portuguese colonial wars in Asia1500–1663Significant
- Regional
- Regional
- Regional
- Battle of Homs1281Regional
- Battle of Marqab1285Regional
- Regional
- Battle of Acre1291Regional
- Regional
- Regional
- Battle of Aleppo1400Regional
- Regional
- Battle of Chaul1508Regional
- Battle of Diu1509Regional
- Regional
- Regional
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Cite as: Mamluk Sultanate (1250 – 1517). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/mena-mamluk-sultanate · Sources & methodology