Battle of Ridanieh

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Ridanieh


caption=
partof=the Mamluks
date=January 22, 1517
place=near Ridanieh,near Cairo, Egypt
result=Decisive Ottoman victory
Collapse of the Mamluk Sultanate
Egypt and the Middle East under Ottoman control for the next 3 centuries
combatant1=
combatant2=
commander1=Sultan Selim I
commander2=Sultan Tuman bay II†
Janberdi Al-Ghazali
Shadi Baig†
strength1=Unknown
strength2=Unknown
casualties1=High
casualties2=High
The Battle of Ridanieh was fought on January 22, 1517 in Egypt. The Ottoman Turkish forces of Selim I defeated the Mamluk forces under Al-Ashraf Tuman bay II. The Turks marched into Cairo, and the severed head of Tuman Bey II, Egypt’s last Mamluk Sultan, was hung over an entrance gate in the "Al Ghourieh" quarter of Cairo. [ "The Soul of Old Cairo" (memoir), "the Courier" of UNESCO, May 2000, webpage: [http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_05/uk/dici.htm UNESCO-2000-Dici] .]

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