Mamluk Egypt and its possessions fall to…

1396 CE to 1539 CE

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.

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'Amman `Amman Jordan View →

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Semites View → Arab people View → Circassians View → Jews View → Kurdish people View → Bedouin View → Christians, Miaphysite (Oriental Orthodox) View → Oghuz Turks View → Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines) View → Islam View → Muslims, Sunni View → Muslims, Shi'a View → Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad) View → Fatimid Caliphate View → Mongols View → Damascus, Ayyubid Dynasty of View → Egypt, Ayyubid Sultanate of View → Mongol Empire View → Palestine, Mamluk View → Egypt and Syria, Mamluk Bahri Sultanate of View → Ottoman Emirate View → Ottoman Emirate View → Ottoman Empire View →

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Mongol Conquests View → Mongol Invasions of Syria View → Mongol raids into Palestine View → Mongol invasions of the Levant View →

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Commerce View → Faith View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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