Editing Sinai Peninsula (section)

===Mamluk and Ottoman Periods===
[[File:A camping-place in the wilderness of Sinai.jpg|thumb|left|The wilderness of Sinai, 1862]]
[[File:1869 Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai.jpg|thumb|The first scientifically accurate map of the peninsula: the 1869 Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai]]

The peninsula was governed as part of Egypt under the [[Mamluk Sultanate|Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt]] from 1260 until 1517, when the Ottoman Sultan, [[Selim I|Selim the Grim]], defeated the Egyptians at the [[Battle of Marj Dabiq|Battles of Marj Dabiq]] and [[Battle of Ridaniya|al-Raydaniyya]], and [[Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517)|incorporated Egypt into the Ottoman Empire]]. From then until 1906, Sinai was administered by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] provincial government of the [[Pashalik of Egypt|''Pashalik'' of Egypt]], even following the establishment of the [[Muhammad Ali dynasty]]'s rule over the rest of Egypt in 1805.