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The Mamluk state of
Karaman fell to the Ottoman
Sultan Bayazid the Second in 1486.
The remaining Mamluk possessions in modern day Turkey
including Gaziantep fell to the Turks in 1516 as a result
of the battle of Marj Dabik.
from The
story of Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole
THE MAMLUK SULTANS. 159
1515 The
great Sultan Kai't Bey was but lately dead, who had
covered Cairo with his stately mosques and other
buildings, and whose encouragement of men of letters was
not less marked. The
Sultan who surveyed Selim’s progress in Persia was
an old man, Kansu El-Ghuri, the same whose two
mosques in the principal street of Cairo are familiar
sights to every traveller in Egypt. He posted an army of
observation on his Syrian frontier, to watch the course
of the Ottoman advance. Selim took this as a menace, and
consulted his Viziers as to what was to be done. His
secretary, Mohammed, urged him to make war upon the
Mamluks, and the Sultan was so delighted with this
spirited proposal, that he made the secretary Grand
Vizier on the spot, though it was found necessary to
administer the bastinado to the excellent
1 S.
Lane-Poole, "The Art of the Saracens in Egypt,"
12-40.
DEFEAT OF
THE MAMLUKS. l6l
man before he
consented to accept so dangerous a dignity. Selim was
famous for executing his Viziers, and it was a common
form of cursing at the time to say, " Mayest thou be
Selim’s Vizir," as an equivalent for
"Strike you dead ! " Acting upon the advice
of the new Vizir, Selim set out
in 1516 for Syria, and meeting the Mamluk army on the
field of Marj Dabik near Aleppo, administered a terrible
defeat, in
which the aged Sultan El-Ghuri was trampled to death.”
The story of Turkey Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias
John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman G.P. Putnam's
sons, 1897
Sultan Selim the
Grim
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