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Almoravid   Listen
Almoravid

noun
1.
A member of a Muslim dynasty of Berber warriors that flourished from 1049 to 1145 and that established political dominance over northwestern Africa and Spain.





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"Almoravid" Quotes from Famous Books



... speak of Fez as very old, and the term seems justified when one remembers that the palace of Bou-Jeloud stands on the site of an Almoravid Kasbah of the eleventh century, that when that Kasbah was erected Fez Elbali had already existed for three hundred years, that El Kairouiyin is the contemporary of Sant' Ambrogio of Milan, and that the original mosque of Moulay Idriss ...
— In Morocco • Edith Wharton


Words linked to "Almoravid" :   Berber


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