Konya, Battle of
KONYA, BATTLE OF
Victory of Egyptian forces over the Ottoman army in December 1832.
An army sent by Egypt's Muhammad Ali and led by his son Ibrahim Paşa occupied Konya on 21 November 1832 after sweeping through Palestine and Syria during the previous year. On 21 December, outside of Konya, Ibrahim Pasha defeated the army sent by Sultan Mahmud II and led by Mehmet V Reşat, opening the way for conquest of all of Anatolia. Russian, British, and French intervention forced an Egyptian retreat to Syria and Cilicia, which was formalized in an agreement in March 1833.
see also ibrahim ibn muhammad ali; mahmud ii; mehmet v reŞat; muhammad ali.
Bibliography
Sayyid-Marsot, Afaf Lutfi. Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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