Conquest

                The conquest of Syria was important to their development as a part of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire, in the year  1516, had waged war against Egypt, as well as invaded the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt.7 This major fallout of Syria and the conquering occurred as a result of the Battle of Marj Dabiq, which happened within Aleppo and Halab, two major cities of Syria.⁸ The leader of the Ottoman empire, Selim I, defeated the Mamluk forces and triumphantly marched north to Damascus, after having defeated the Mamluk empire where much havoc was caused throughout Syria’s plains via flooding of the plains.⁹