Palace of Yashbak built

1337 CE.

Shown on the map at 30.032°, 31.255°.

Palace of Yashbak, also known as the Palace of Amir Qawsun, is a semi-ruined palace in Medieval Cairo, Egypt, originally built between 1330 and 1337 CE for the Mamluk amir (high official) known as Qawsun. It was restored and expanded again in the 1480s by the amir Yashbak min Mahdi under the reign of Sultan Qaytbay.

Text from the Wikipedia article Palace of Yashbak, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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