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Battle of Ridaniya

Outside the walls of Cairo, the army of Selim I defeated the forces of the last Mamluk sultan, Tuman Bay II; Egypt passed under Ottoman rule.

Date
22 January 1517exact dateDate in the Julian calendar
Place
Ridaniya (suburb of Cairo)approximate locationtoday: Cairo, Egypt · Middle East and Egypt
Participants
Selim I the Grim, Tuman Bay II, Ottoman Empire, Mamluk Sultanate
Threads
Europe and the Ottoman Empire: the end of the Middle Ages
Also known as
Завоевание Египта османами

The Mamluk guns proved useless against the Ottoman artillery; the grand vizier Hadım Sinan Pasha was killed in the battle. Coming after the rout of the Mamluks at Marj Dabiq (1516), this battle sealed the fate of the Mamluk Sultanate: Tuman Bay still tried to resist, but in April 1517 he was captured and executed.

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  • Battle of Ain Jalut3 September 1260 · Middle East and EgyptThe Mamluk Sultanate, which halted the Mongols in 1260, fell to the Ottomans in 1517

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Battle of Ridaniya
  2. Wikipedia (Russian): Битва при Ридании
  3. Holt P. M. The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517. — London: Longman, 1986.
  4. Wikidata: Q537923