Burji (tower) regiment of the Cairo Citadel

E1557194 UNEXPLORED

The Burji (tower) regiment of the Cairo Citadel was an elite Mamluk military corps of predominantly Circassian slave-soldiers stationed in the Citadel’s towers, which became the dominant power group that founded and sustained the Burji (Circassian) Mamluk dynasty in late medieval Egypt.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Burji (tower) regiment of the Cairo Citadel canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

al-Malik az-Zahir Sayf ad-Din Barquq powerBase Burji (tower) regiment of the Cairo Citadel