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| | Egypt's Mamluk Sultans [Usually Misspelled Mamelukes] |
 | | The Egyptian Kurdish Ayyubid Dynasty, founded by the foe of the Crusaders, Salahaddin, better known as Saladin, 80 years before the rise of the Mamluks, in 1169, came to an end when its last Sultan, Turanshah, was assassinated and replaced by the first Aybak. |
 | | Baybars, a Kipchak Turk and a Mamluk general in the service of the two Aybaks, Ali and Qutuz, captured King Louis IX of France, a Crusader later called St. Louis, in 1250, and stopped the Mongols in the battle of Ayn Jalut in Palestine in 1260. |
 | | The reason is that the Egyptians met them at Ain Jalut, forbidding their entrance to the Dark Continent. |
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