Al-Ashraf Abu al-Nasir Janbalat (; 1455 – 1501) was a
Mamluk
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sultan
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of
Egypt
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from 30 June 1500 to 25 January 1501.
Biography
Abu al-Nasir Janbalat who was about 45 years old raised to the throne after Sultan
Qansuh, threatened by a plot, fled in 1500. The chancellor
Tuman-bay, who had ruled Syria, overthrew him in 1501. Janbalat tried to resist in the
citadel
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...
, but was defeated, captured and sent into exile in
Alexandria
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, to be later executed in 1501.
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Burji sultans
15th-century Mamluk sultans
16th-century Mamluk sultans
1455 births
1501 deaths
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