EgyptandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
4 SHARED EVENTSPalestine

Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · EGY LEFT · PSE RIGHT

1. c. 3000 BCE

   Canaanite city-states of the Bronze Age

   Walled Canaanite towns flourished across the southern Levant, trading with Egypt and Mesopotamia and forming the region's earliest urban civilisation.

   Formation · from the Palestine chronicle · Ancient Palestine: Canaan, the Philistines, and the Empires · REFS 2 — Palestine - region, history, Canaan

2. 1260 CE

   Battle of Ain Jalut

   Mamluk forces defeat the Mongols at Ain Jalut in Palestine, halting their westward advance and securing Egypt as the bastion of the Islamic world.

   War & Rupture · from the Egypt chronicle · Islamic Egypt: Caliphs, Fatimids and Mamluks · REFS 1 — Egypt: The Ayyubid dynasty (1171–1250)

3. 1291 CE

   Mamluk rule established

   The Mamluk sultanate of Egypt expelled the last Crusaders from the Levant and governed Palestine until the Ottoman conquest.

   Politics & Power · from the Palestine chronicle · Islamic Palestine: Conquest, Caliphates, Crusades, and Mamluks · REFS 1 — Palestine - region, history

4. 2007

   Blockade of the Gaza Strip

   After Hamas took control of Gaza, Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade restricting the movement of people and goods, with severe humanitarian consequences.

   Politics & Power · from the Palestine chronicle · Occupation, Dispossession, and the Present · REFS 2 — Gaza Strip - Blockade, Blockade of the Gaza Strip