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Hamza of Ramadan

beg of Ramadan from 1418 to 1426

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ124784591 ↗
Source-derived summary

Izz al-Din Hamza (died 1426) was Beg of Ramadan from 1418 to 1426.

References

Bibliography

Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (1996). New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780231107143. OCLC 35029627.

Har-El, Shai (1995). Struggle for Domination in the Middle East: The Ottoman-Mamluk War, 1485-91. E.J. Brill. ISBN 9004101802.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hamza of Ramadan” is beg of Ramadan from 1418 to 1426. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hamza and Ramadan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1426, 1418, 1996, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Hamza and Ramadan is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “beg of Ramadan from 1418 to 1426” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124784591. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1426, 1418, 1996 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hamza of Ramadan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.