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Events on Monday 24 June 1839 1
1839Battle of NezibEgyptian army routs Ottoman forces in SyriaAn Egyptian army under Ibrahim Pasha decisively defeated the Ottoman army near Nezib in the Second Ottoman-Egyptian War. The victory left the Ottoman Empire dependent on European intervention to prevent the collapse of its authority in Syria. News of the defeat reached Constantinople around the time Sultan Mahmud II died.