Plague infested the whole of the known ... the Ottoman Turks who were commanded by the brutal sultan Selim I “The Grim” but the Mamluks had not had to fight in earnest for eighty years and ...

Diyarbakır held a strategic position during the time of the Mamluk Sultanate. The city was loyal to the Mamluks and was under their control. When the Ottoman-Mamluk wars began, S ...