Baybars was the ______ Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria.
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Baybars was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria. He was a Turk who had been captured and enslaved as a young man, but he rose through the ranks of the Mamluk military and became a general. He was a skilled military leader and he defeated the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260.
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