Late Middle Ages · Middle East · Politics
1382
Burji Mamluk dynasty seizes power in Cairo
1382
Barquq, a Circassian slave-soldier, overthrew the last Bahri sultan and established the Burji Mamluk line that would rule Egypt and Syria for 135 years. The transfer was less a revolution than a palace coup - one slave caste replacing another - but it shifted power from Turkic to Circassian hands and reshaped court culture.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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