Nomads vs. Nomads. FIGHT!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2040387/nomads-vs-nomads-fight

Nomads vs. Nomads. FIGHT!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2040385/nomads-vs-nomads-fight

Self-defeating success

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1881133/self-defeating-success

SLAVE SOLDIERS VS. SLAVE SOLDIERS LET'S GOOOOO

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1827645/slave-soldiers-vs-slave-soldiers-let-s-gooooo

"We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled!"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1706162/we-ve-been-tricked-we-ve-been-backstabbed-and-we-ve-been-quite-possibly-bamboozled

*January 22*

On January 22, 1517, the Ottomans captured Cairo, bringing Mamluk rule in Egypt to an end and shifting the region’s balance of power.

Literature on the topic: ‘Egypt under Ottoman rule’:
https://halit.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/search?q=%22osmanisches+reich%22+%C3%A4gypten&l=menasearch&s=yeardesc&d02=Osmanisches+Reich,%C3%84gypten&d03=ssg3.2.3.8.3,ssg3.2.6.2.3

#ottomanempire #mamluks #egypt #history #mamluksultanate

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kansu_Gavri_%C3%96l%C3%BC.png?uselang=de#Lizenz (Public Domain)

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#MENAdoc:

"Beiträge zur mamlukischen Historiographie[...]" by Barbara Schäfer

[Freiburg: Schwarz, 1971]

https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/91492
#historiography #mamluks