ON THIS DAY
- Battles & Sieges
- 0969 (1057 years ago) (9 July) The Fatimids captured Egypt after a 5-month-long conflict with the Ikhshidid dynasty, which was ruling the country at that time in the name of the Abbasid Caliphate. Fatimid general and commander Jawhar ibn Abdallah led the expedition.
- 1913 (113 years ago) (9 July) Ottoman military officer Enver Pasha recovered Edirne (Adrianople) from the Bulgarian occupation during the Second Balkan War. Edirne was the capital city of the Ottoman Empire from the 1360s to 1453.
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