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Selim marches victoriously from Halab, to Damascus, …
Years: 1516 - 1516
October
Selim marches victoriously from Halab, to Damascus, where the utmost terror prevails.
However, beyond some attempts to protect the city by flooding the plain around it, nothing has been done to oppose the enemy.
Action is paralyzed as usual by discord among the emirs.
Some consider Emir Janberdi Al-Ghazali as Sultan, others champion Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri’s son, but as the Ottomans approach, all either go over to them, or flee to Egypt.
Selim I enters the city about the middle of October; and the inhabitants high and low, only too happy to escape the war, readily tender submission to the Ottoman conqueror.
Ottoman control, despite being often jeopardized by revolts, will last almost three centuries.
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Years: 1516 - 1516
October
Locations
People
Groups
- Iranian peoples
- Kurdish people
- Oghuz Turks
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Turkmen people
- Egypt and Syria, Mamluk Burji Sultanate of
- Ottoman Empire
- Qizilbash or Kizilbash, (Ottoman Turkish for "Crimson/Red Heads")
- Persia, Safavid Kingdom of
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions