What type of origin did Baybars have?
Arabic
Persian
Turkic Kipchak
Mongolian
Answer
Baybars was born in 1223 in a Turkic Kipchak tribe. He was captured by the Mamluks in a raid on his village and enslaved. He was then trained as a Mamluk soldier and rose through the ranks. He became sultan of Egypt and Syria in 1260 and ruled until his death in 1277.
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