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In 1811 Mohamed organized a grand banquet and called all the notable mamelukes to attend.
Egypt became a backwater, even more so as the Ottoman Empire went into chronic terminal decline in the 18th century, with a series of crises that local mamelukes were unable to control.
However Ayyubid control was weak and power was usurped by their Turkish slaves, called mamelukes, who succeeded in founding a dynasty that lasted from 1251 to 1517.
Akko fell to the Egyptian Mamelukes (freed slaves of Turkish/Circassian origin) in 1291, bringing to an end the Crusader period.
Later it became the palace of the Mamelukes and was a British garrison during WWII.