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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Cairo (Ottoman Wars).

Fought 1517, between the Turks under Selim I, and the Egyptians under the Mameluke Sultan, Toomaan Bey. The Egyptians were utterly routed and Cairo taken, 50,000 of the inhabitants being massacred[massacred]. Toomaan Bey, the last of the Mamelukes, was hanged before the city gates, and Egypt annexed to the Ottoman Empire.