Ruler
Sultan Selim I
Ottoman sultan who annexed Egypt
1512 – 1520
Regnal years.
Biography
An Ottoman sultan who defeated the Mamluks at Marj Dabiq in Syria in 1516 and at al-Raydaniyya near Cairo in 1517, annexing Egypt to the Ottoman Empire. He stayed a few months in Egypt before returning to Istanbul.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Selim I defeated the Mamluks at al-Raydaniyya in January 1517 and entered Cairo.
- M. W. Daly (ed.) (1998) “The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 2: Modern Egypt, from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century” Cambridge University Press
- Jane Hathaway (2008) “The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1800” Pearson Longman