Battle of Ridanieh

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The Battle of Ridanieh was fought on January 22, 1517 in Egypt. The Ottoman Turkish forces of Selim I defeated the Mamluk forces under Toumen Bey (Toumen Bay). The Turks marched into Cairo, and the severed head of Toumen Bey, Egypt’s last Mameluke sultan, was hung over an entrance gate in the Al Ghourieh quarter of Cairo. [1]

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  1. ^ "The Soul of Old Cairo" (memoir), "the Courier" of UNESCO, May 2000, webpage: UNESCO-2000-Dici.
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