After about 1070 , the Fatimid hold on the Levant coast and parts of Syria was challenged first by Turkish invasions , then the Crusades , so that Fatimid territory shrank until it consisted only of Egypt . After about 1070 , the Fatimid hold on the Levant coast and parts of Syria was challenged first by Turkic invasions , then the Crusades , so that Fatimid territory shrank until it consisted only of Egypt .