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Ottoman-Mamluk War

1516 CE – 1517 CE

Selim I crushed the Mamluk Sultanate in two campaigns, annexing Syria and Egypt and making the Ottomans the dominant power of the eastern Mediterranean.

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Imperial Ottoman conquest of Egypt and the Levant

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Ottoman-Mamluk War

1516 CE – 1517 CE

Selim I crushed the Mamluk Sultanate in two campaigns, annexing Syria and Egypt and making the Ottomans the dominant power of the eastern Mediterranean.

Standing in 1516 CE

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