Muslim Sicily
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muslim-sicily-177-6523881
title:
Muslim Sicily
text:
The island of Sicily was under Islamic rule from the late ninth to late eleventh centuries. It became a prosperous and influential commercial power in the Mediterranean, with its capital of Palermo serving as a major cultural and political center of the Muslim world. Sicily was peripheral part of the Byzantine Empire when Muslim forces from Ifriqiya began launching raids in 652. During the reign of the Aghlabid dynasty in Ifriqiya, a prolonged series of conflicts from 827 to 902 resulted in the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Period of Sicilian history under Islamic rule from 831 to 1091
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Sicily
date created:
2006-02-10T13:08:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T06:23:37Z
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13
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