Battle of Ridaniya

Battle of Ridaniya
	Part of the Mamluk-Ottoman War (1516–1517)
Date	January 22, 1517
Location	Ridanieh, present-day Egypt
Result	Ottoman victory; Collapse of the Mamluk Sultanate;
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Mamluk Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Sultan Selim I; Hadım Sinan Pasha †	Sultan Tuman Bay II; Janbirdi al-Ghazali; Shadi Baig †
Strength
20,000	20,000
Casualties and losses
6,000	7,000

The Battle of Ridaniya or Battle of Ridanieh (Turkish: Ridaniye Muharebesi; Arabic: معركة الريدانية) was fought on January 22, 1517, in Egypt. The Ottoman forces of Selim I defeated the Mamluk forces under Al-Ashraf Tuman bay II. The Turks marched into Cairo, and the severed head of Tuman bay II, Egypt’s last Mamluk Sultan, was hung over an entrance gate in the Al Ghourieh quarter of Cairo.^[4] Or, alternatively, he was hung from the gate and buried after three days.^[5] The Ottoman grand vizier, Hadım Sinan Pasha, was killed in action.

^ E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Vol. 9, Ed. Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, (Brill, 1938), 432.
^ Nicolle, p. 16
^ ^a ^b Dupuy, R. Ernest; Dupuy, Trevor N. (1993). The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History (4th ed.). HarperCollins Publishers. p. 540.
^ Gharib, Samir (May 2000). "The Soul of Old Cairo" (PDF). The UNESCO Courier. 53 (5). United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: 6. Archived from the original on July 8, 2008.
^ Muir, William (1896). The Mameluke; Or, Slave Dynasty of Egypt, 1260–1517, A.D. Smith, Elder. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[1] E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Vol. 9, Ed. Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, (Brill, 1938), 432.

[2] Nicolle, p. 16

[Dupuy-3] Dupuy, R. Ernest; Dupuy, Trevor N. (1993). The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History (4th ed.). HarperCollins Publishers. p. 540.

[4] Gharib, Samir (May 2000). "The Soul of Old Cairo" (PDF). The UNESCO Courier. 53 (5). United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: 6. Archived from the original on July 8, 2008.

[Mameluke-5] Muir, William (1896). The Mameluke; Or, Slave Dynasty of Egypt, 1260–1517, A.D. Smith, Elder. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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