THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · 1250–1516

Mamluk Sultanate

Mamluk Sultanate appears on the map from 1250 to 1516. At its greatest recorded extent, in 1516, it covered about 1.85 million km².

Mamluks were slave soldiers, mostly Turkic and later Circassian boys bought from the steppes and trained as elite cavalry. In 1250 the mamluks of Egypt's Ayyubid sultan seized power, founding a state ruled by former slaves. In 1260 their army under Qutuz and Baybars defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in Palestine, halting the Mongol advance, and over the following decades they expelled the last Crusaders, taking Acre in 1291. More about Mamluk Sultanate.

See Mamluk Sultanate on the map in 1516

Reference map: Map of the Mamluk Sultanate
Reference map: Map of the Mamluk Sultanate naturalearthdata.com, offered to the Public Domain per Terms of Use · CC BY-SA 4.0
On the map
1250–1516
Greatest extent
1516, about 1.85 million km²
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Wikipedia: Mamluk Sultanate · Wikidata Q282428

Territory through time

YearsArea drawn
1250–12591.52 million km²
1260–12711.34 million km²
1268–12715,634 km²
1272–12781.47 million km²
1279–12931.68 million km²
1289–1293454 km²
1291–12932,114 km²
1294–13431.47 million km²
1344–13511.47 million km²
1352–13621.47 million km²
1363–13741.47 million km²
1375–13841.50 million km²
1385–14011.48 million km²
1402–14061.45 million km²
1407–14141.48 million km²
1415–14671.48 million km²
1468–15151.48 million km²
15161.85 million km²

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