EVENT INFORMATION

10
Mart
1517

Mamluk forces capture Taiz

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📅 10 Mart 1517 📍 Yemen

An Egyptian Mamluk army under Barsbay captured Taiz during its campaign in Yemen. The campaign had been assembled amid Portuguese pressure in the Red Sea, but it displaced Tahirid authority and extended military control over Yemeni territory. Local Zaydi forces and Yemeni tribes supported the Mamluks, so the conquest was not a simple external-versus-local binary.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Barsbay

Tahirid rulers

Yemeni tribal and Zaydi allies

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Mamluk Sultanate

Tahirid Sultanate

Yemeni Zaydi communities