Template:Did you know nominations/Ahmad ibn Tulun

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The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 23:42, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Ahmad ibn Tulun

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• ... that the Turkish slave-soldier Ahmad ibn Tulun established the first local dynasty to rule Egypt since the Pharaohs, and became the first of a series of Egypt-based rulers to extend his control over the Levant as well?

• Reviewed: Cockroach.

Improved to Good Article status by Cplakidas (talk). Self-nominated at 14:46, 19 December 2015 (UTC).

• New enough and long enough, inline citations and references checks, factual and interesting hooks, close paraphrasing and neutrality is checked as well and approved, Good work, well done! This one is good to go.BabbaQ (talk) 14:38, 31 December 2015 (UTC)