Battle of Marj Dabiq

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Battle of Marj Dabiq
Part of Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17)
An Ottoman miniature depicting the battle
Date 24 August 1516; 507 years ago (1516-08-24)[1] Location Dabiq, near Aleppo, Mamluk Sultanate (modern Syria)[2] Result Ottoman victory Ottoman annexation of Syria
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Mamluk rebels	Mamluk Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Selim I Hadım Sinan Pasha Bıyıklı Mehmed Pasha Hayır Bey	Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri † Janbirdi al-Ghazali Alaa el-Din bin el-Emam
Strength
60,000[3]	60,000–80,000[3][4][5][6] Mamluks Auxiliary forces Bedouin Arabs

The Battle of Marj Dābiq (Arabic: مرج دابق, meaning "the meadow of Dābiq"; Turkish: Mercidabık Muharebesi), a decisive military engagement in Middle Eastern history, was fought on 24 August 1516, near the town of Dabiq, 44 km north of Aleppo (modern Syria).^[7] The battle was part of the 1516–17 war between the Ottoman Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate, which ended in an Ottoman victory and conquest of much of the Middle East and brought about the destruction of the Mamluk Sultanate. The Ottoman victory in the battle gave Selim's armies control of the entire region of Syria and opened the door to the conquest of Egypt.