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Egypt lived its most glorious and prosperous days and years under the rule of the 3 different Turkic dynasties which ruled the Nile country at 3 different eras.
1. Tulunids (868-905)
2. Bahri line Mamluks (1250-1382)Ṭūlūnid Dynasty, first local dynasty of Egypt and Syria to exist independently of the ʿAbbāsid caliphate in Baghdad, ruling 868–905. Its founder, Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, a Turk, arrived in Egypt in 868 as vice governor and promptly (868–872) established a military and financial foothold in the province by organizing an independent Egyptian army and securing the management of the Egyptian and Syrian treasuries.
3. Ottoman Turk period (1517-1798)The Bahri dynasty or Bahriyya Mamluks (Turkish: Bahri Hanedanı, al-Mamalik al-Bahariyya - المماليك البحرية) was a Mamluk dynasty of mostly Cuman-Kipchak Turkic origin that ruled the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate from 1250 to 1382.
In 1250, when the Ayyubid sultan as-Salih Ayyub died, the Mamluks he had owned as slaves murdered his son and heir al-Muazzam Turanshah, and Shajar al-Durr the widow of as-Salih became the Sultana of Egypt. She married the Atabeg (commander in chief) Emir Aybak and abdicated, Aybak (Kwharezmian Oghuz Turcoman) becoming Sultan. He ruled from 1250 to 1257.
Egypt's most prosperous days were under these Turkic dynasties. Especially the Bahri Mamluk era is still remembered as the golden era of Egypt. Baibars (Cuman-Kipchak) even surpassed Ramses II as he did what was never done before: defeating the Mongol Empire's army in close combat.Selim’s subjugation of the Dulkadir (Dhū al-Qadr) principality of Elbistan (now in Turkey) brought the Ottomans into conflict with the Mamlūk rulers (Circassian Burji line) of Syria and Egypt, who regarded Dulkadir as their protégé. Selim defeated the Mamlūk armies at the battles of Marj Dābiq (north of Aleppo; Aug. 24, 1516) and Raydānīyah (near Cairo; Jan. 22, 1517), thus bringing Syria, Egypt, and Palestine under Ottoman rule. In Cairo the sharif of Mecca presented Selim with the keys to that holy city, a symbolic gesture acknowledging Selim as the leader of the Islāmic world.
In 1798 the French under Napoleon invaded Egypt and left it in 1801. After 4 years of vacuum, Albanian Mohammed Ali took over Egypt and controlled it until 1848.
Back then during Baibars' era, Egypt was even called Turkey. It became a second Turkiye.
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