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Also Known As al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Bunduqdārī • Baibars I • al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Ṣāliḥ • al-Ṣāliḥī
Born 1223 • near Black Sea
Died July 1, 1277 (aged 54) • Damascus • Syria
Title / Office sultan (1260-1277), Egypt
House / Dynasty Mamluk dynasty
Role In Battle of ʿAyn Jālūt
Darius the Great
Darius I
king of Persia
Sesostris III
Sesostris III
king of Egypt
Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
president of Palestinian Authority
Ramses II
Ramses II
king of Egypt
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a suit and gold tie, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
president of Egypt
Map showing the extent of the Ancient Egyptian Empire during the New Kingdom period of Thutmose III, highlighted in orange, covering Egypt, the Nile River valley, Sinai, and stretching northeast through Palestine, Phoenicia, and Syria. The map also marks the Fertile Crescent and neighboring regions such as Assyria and Babylonia in pink, with key cities and geographic features labeled.
Thutmose III
king of Egypt
Coin depicting Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter
Macedonian king of Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser
president of Egypt
Lord Cromer, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1902; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Evelyn Baring, 1st earl of Cromer
British diplomat
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Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
Engraving of Mohammed Ali, founder of modern Egypt, shown with a full white beard, wearing a traditional hat and embroidered jacket, facing slightly to the viewer's left.
Muḥammad ʿAlī
pasha and viceroy of Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat
president of Egypt
Omar Suleiman, 2007.
Omar Suleiman
vice president of Egypt
Ramses III
Ramses III
king of Egypt
Norman de Garis Davies: Dragging a Statue of Thutmose I
Thutmose I
king of Egypt
Charles George Gordon
Charles George Gordon
British general
Sesostris I
Sesostris I
king of Egypt
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Merneptah
king of Egypt
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ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm ʿĀmir
Egyptian military official and vice president
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Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator
Macedonian king of Egypt

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