Ottoman & Khedivial · event 1 of 11

1517

The Ottoman conquest. Selim I defeats the Mamluks and Egypt becomes a province. Cairo declines relatively, which is partly why so much medieval fabric survives.

The Ottoman & Khedivial era

  1. 1517
  2. 1798
  3. 1805
  4. 1811
  5. 1830–1848
  6. 1869
  7. 1860s–1870s
  8. 1882
  9. 1902
  10. 1919
  11. 1922

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