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Aghlabite

Aghlabite is the alternative form of Aghlabid.

Meaning of Aghlabid

Noun

Aghlabid (plural Aghlabids)

  1. (historical) Any member of an Arab dynasty of emirs who ruled Ifriqiya and parts of Southern Italy, nominally on behalf of the Abbasid Caliph, from 800–909 CE.
    • In the rest of their dominions the Aghlabids could exercise only indirect and in some areas even nominal control.1987, Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, Ǧamīl M. Abū al-Naṣr, Abun-Nasr, Jamil Mirʻi Abun-Nasr, A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period, Cambridge University Press, page 55

Forms of Aghlabite

pluralAghlabites

Questions about Aghlabite

What is Aghlabite the alternative form of?
Aghlabite is the alternative form of Aghlabid.

Words near Aghlabite in the dictionary

  1. Aghireșu
  2. Aghjayan
  3. Aghjayans
  4. Aghlabid
  5. Aghlabids
  6. Aghlabite
  7. Aghlabites
  8. Aghorapanthi
  9. Aghorapanthis
  10. Aghori
  11. Aghu

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