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Akko fell to the Egyptian Mamelukes (freed slaves of Turkish/Circassian origin) in 1291, bringing to an end the Crusader period.
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.
Crusaders, Mamelukes, and Turks
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.
Later it became the palace of the Mamelukes and was a British garrison during WWII.