Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Aleppo (Ottoman Wars).

Fought 1516, between the Turks under Selim I, and the Egyptians under the Mameluke Sultan, Tooman Beg. After a sanguinary engagement, the Egyptians were utterly routed, and Selim added the whole of Syria to the Ottoman dominions.