Mamluk Egypt and its possessions fall to …
Years: 1396 - 1539
Mamluk Egypt and its possessions fall to the Ottoman sultan, Selim I, in 1517.
The Jordan region, however, stagnates under Ottoman rule.
Although the pilgrim caravans to Mecca continue to be an important source of income, the East Bank will be largely forgotten by the outside world for more than three hundred years until European travelers "rediscover" it in the nineteenth century.
Locations
Groups
- Semites
- Arab people
- Circassians
- Jews
- Kurdish people
- Bedouin
- Christians, Miaphysite (Oriental Orthodox)
- Oghuz Turks
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Mongols
- Damascus, Ayyubid Dynasty of
- Egypt, Ayyubid Sultanate of
- Mongol Empire
- Palestine, Mamluk
- Egypt and Syria, Mamluk Bahri Sultanate of
- Ottoman Emirate
- Ottoman Emirate
- Ottoman Empire
Topics
- Mongol Conquests
- Mongol Invasions of Syria
- Mongol raids into Palestine
- Mongol invasions of the Levant
