Baybars I
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- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Middle Ages
- Categories: Government and Politics, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility, Military History
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, Crusades, Slavery, Slaves, Islam, Muslims, Mosques
- Curriculum: African History
Article abstract: Through military prowess, administrative skill, courage, and practical good sense, Baybars rose from slavery to become the virtual founder and most eminent representative of the Mamluk (slave) Dynasty in medieval Egypt.
Early Life
Baybars I, al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Salihi, was born around the year 1223 in what is now southern Russia. A member of the tribe of Kipchak Turks living on the north shores of the Black Sea, Baybars was a victim of the Mongol invasion of his native region in the late 1230’s. By the time he was...
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