Capture of Cairo (1517)

Capture of Cairo (1517)
	Part of the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517)
	; Execution of Tuman bay II
Date	27-30 January 1517
Location	Cairo, present-day Egypt
Result	Ottoman victory Cairo captured by the Ottomans; Egypt annexed by the Ottoman Empire; End of the Abbasid dynasty; Execution of Tuman bay II;
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Mamluk Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Selim I	Tuman bay II ; Al-Mutawakkil (POW)
Strength
unknown	10,000–20,000
Casualties and losses
unknown	heavy losses; 50,000 civilians dead

The capture of Cairo was the capture of the capital of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt by the Ottoman Empire in 1517.

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