 The Syrian geographer al @-@ Dimashqi described Gaza in 1300 as " so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land " . He accounted to Gaza the cities and towns of Ascalon , Jaffa , Caesarea , Arsuf , Deir al @-@ Balah , al @-@ Arish ( in north @-@ central the Sinai ) , Bayt Jibrin , Karatiyya , Hebron and Jerusalem — all of which had their own sub @-@ governors . Emir Baibars al @-@ Ala 'i ruled Mamlakat Ghazzah between 1307 @-@ 1310 , during the second reign of an @-@ Nasir Muhammad until the latter was briefly overthrown by Baybars al @-@ Jashnakir . Gaza was one of the places that returned to the allegiance of the exiled sultan ; in 1310 , an @-@ Nasir Muhammad defeated Sultan Baybars in Gaza , forcing the latter to surrender his throne to him . Baybars was imprisoned in the city . 
