Military of the Tulunid Emirate

The Military of the Tulunid Emirate also known as the al-Asakir al-Masria (Egyptian Arabic: العساكر المصرية, lit. 'Egyptian troops') or al-Askar al-Masri (Egyptian Arabic: العساكر المصرية, lit. 'Egyptian troops') or al-Jund al-Masri (Egyptian Arabic: الجند المصري, lit. 'Egyptian soldiers') was the army of the Tulunid dynasty, which ruled Egypt and much of the Levant as vassal rulers of the Abbasid Caliphate, but de facto autonomous, from 868 to 905. == Background == After the fall of the Egyptian Ptolemaic Kingdom and the end of the ancient Egyptian civilization at the hands of the Roman Republic, Egypt became a Roman province until the Islamic conquest of Egypt at the hands of Amr ibn al-As in 642.

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