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Assaf dynasty

Index Assaf dynasty

The Assaf dynasty (also called Banu Assaf) were a Sunni Muslim and ethnic Turkmen dynasty of chieftains based in the Keserwan region of Mount Lebanon. [1]

52 relations: Ainab, Aintoura, Akkar District, Alawites, Aramoun, Keserwan, Bahri dynasty, Ballouneh, Barquq, Batroun, Beirut, Beqaa Valley, Bikfaya, Bsharri, Burji dynasty, Byblos, Cairo, Choueifat, Circassians, Damascus, Damascus Eyalet, Dinniyeh, Egypt Eyalet, Emir, Emir Assaf Mosque, Gemayel family, Ghazir, Homs, Istanbul, Istifan al-Duwayhi, Jaj, Janbirdi al-Ghazali, Kamal Salibi, Keserwan District, Khazen, Koura District, Lassa, Lebanon, Lebanese people (Maronite Christians), Lebanese people (Shia Muslims), Levant, Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo), Mount Lebanon, Murad III, Nahr al-Kalb, Ottoman Empire, Safad Sanjak, Selim I, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, Tripoli Eyalet, Tripoli, Lebanon, ..., Turkmens, Yanouh. Expand index (2 more) »

Ainab

Ainab (عيناب), is a town on the western slopes of Mount Lebanon overlooking Beirut.

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Aintoura

Aintoura (عينطورة) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.

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Akkar District

Akkar District (قضاء عكار) is the only district in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon.

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Alawites

The Alawis, also rendered as Alawites (علوية Alawiyyah/Alawīyah), are a syncretic sect of the Twelver branch of Shia Islam, primarily centered in Syria.

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Aramoun, Keserwan

Aramoun (عرمون; also spelled Aaramoun or ′Aramun) is a town and municipality located in the Keserwan District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon.

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Bahri dynasty

The Bahri dynasty or Bahriyya Mamluks (translit) was a Mamluk dynasty of mostly Cuman-Kipchak Turkic origin that ruled the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate from 1250 to 1382.

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Ballouneh

Ballouneh (بلونة) is a small town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon.

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Barquq

Al-Malik Az-Zahir Sayf ad-Din Barquq (الملك الظاهر سيف الدين برقوق) (ruled 1382–1389 and 1390 –1399) was the first Sultan of the Mamluk Burji dynasty.

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Batroun

Batroun (البترون; בתרון) is a coastal city in northern Lebanon and one of the oldest cities in the world.

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Beirut

Beirut (بيروت, Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Beqaa Valley

The Beqaa Valley (وادي البقاع,, Lebanese; Բեքայի դաշտավայր), also transliterated as Bekaa, Biqâ and Becaa and known in Classical antiquity as Coele-Syria, is a fertile valley in eastern Lebanon.

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Bikfaya

Bikfaya (بكفيا, also spelled Bickfaya, Beckfayya, or Bekfaya) is a town in the Matn District region of Mount Lebanon.

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Bsharri

Bsharri (بْشَرِّيْ Bšarrī; also Romanized Becharre, Bcharre, Bsharre) is a town at an altitude of about to.

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Burji dynasty

The Burji dynasty (المماليك البرجية) was a Circassian Mamluk dynasty which ruled Egypt from 1382 until 1517, during the Mamluk Sultanate.

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Byblos

Byblos, in Arabic Jbail (جبيل Lebanese Arabic pronunciation:; Phoenician: 𐤂𐤁𐤋 Gebal), is a Middle Eastern city on Levant coast in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Choueifat

Choueifat (شويفات, also transliterated Shuwayfat) is one of the biggest and most important cities in southeast of Beirut in Lebanon.

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Circassians

The Circassians (Черкесы Čerkesy), also known by their endonym Adyghe (Circassian: Адыгэхэр Adygekher, Ады́ги Adýgi), are a Northwest Caucasian nation native to Circassia, many of whom were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, especially after the Russian–Circassian War in 1864.

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Damascus

Damascus (دمشق, Syrian) is the capital of the Syrian Arab Republic; it is also the country's largest city, following the decline in population of Aleppo due to the battle for the city.

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Damascus Eyalet

Damascus Eyalet (ایالت شام; Eyālet-i Šām) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.

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Dinniyeh

Dinniyeh (known also as Addinniyeh, Al Dinniyeh, Al Danniyeh, الضنية) is a region located in Miniyeh-Danniyeh District in the North Governorate of Lebanon.

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Egypt Eyalet

The Eyalet of Egypt was the result of the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottoman Empire in 1517, following the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517) and the absorption of Syria into the Empire in 1516.

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Emir

An emir (أمير), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is an aristocratic or noble and military title of high office used in a variety of places in the Arab countries, West African, and Afghanistan.

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Emir Assaf Mosque

Emir Assaf Mosque is located in downtown Beirut, Lebanon.

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Gemayel family

Gemayel is the name of a prominent Lebanese Maronite family based in Bikfaya, Lebanon.

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Ghazir

Ghazir (غزير) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon.

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Homs

Homs (حمص / ALA-LC: Ḥimṣ), previously known as Emesa or Emisa (Greek: Ἔμεσα Emesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate.

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Istanbul

Istanbul (or or; İstanbul), historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center.

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Istifan al-Duwayhi

Istifan al-Duwayhi (اسطفانوس الثاني بطرس الدويهي / ALA-LC: Isṭifānūs al-thānī Buṭrus al-Duwayhī; Etienne Douaihi; Stephanus Dovaihi; Stefano El Douaihy; August 2, 1630 – May 3, 1704) was the 57th Patriarch of the Maronite Church, serving from 1670 until his death.

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Jaj

Jaj (جاج, also spelled Jaje) is a mountainous village in the Jbeil District of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.

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Janbirdi al-Ghazali

Janbirdi al-Ghazali (جان بردي الغزالي; Jān-Birdi al-Ghazāli; died 1521) was the first governor of Damascus Province under the Ottoman Empire from February 1519 until his death in February 1521.

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Kamal Salibi

Kamal Suleiman Salibi (كمال سليمان الصليبي.) (2 May 19291 September 2011) ilouban,com, 1 September 2011.

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Keserwan District

Keserwan District (قضاء كسروان, transliteration: Qadaa Keserwan) is a district (qadaa) in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, to the northeast of Lebanon's capital Beirut.

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Khazen

Khazen (also "El-Khazen", and in some cases Al Khazen or De Khazen, Arabic: الخازن) is the name of a prominent noble Levantine family and clan based in Keserwan District, Lebanon, Damascus, Syria, Nablus, Palestine, as well as other districts around the Levant, predominantly in the Galilee.

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Koura District

Koura District (الكورة, from lit) is a district in the North Governorate, Lebanon.

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Lassa, Lebanon

Lassa (لاسا) is a municipality in the Jbeil District of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.

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Lebanese people (Maronite Christians)

Lebanese Maronite Christians (Arabic: المسيحية المارونية في لبنان) refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, which is the largest Christian denomination in the country.

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Lebanese people (Shia Muslims)

Lebanese people refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of the Shia branch of Islam in Lebanon, which is the largest Muslim denomination in the country tied with Sunni Muslims.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)

The Mamluk Sultanate (سلطنة المماليك Salṭanat al-Mamālīk) was a medieval realm spanning Egypt, the Levant, and Hejaz.

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Mount Lebanon

Mount Lebanon (جَبَل لُبْنَان, jabal lubnān, Lebanese Arabic pronunciation; ܛܘܪ ܠܒܢܢ) is a mountain range in Lebanon.

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Murad III

Murad III (Ottoman Turkish: مراد ثالث Murād-i sālis, Turkish: III.Murat) (4 July 1546 – 15/16 January 1595) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595.

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Nahr al-Kalb

The Nahr al-Kalb (نهر الكلب, meaning Dog River) is a river in Lebanon.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Safad Sanjak

Safad Sanjak (Safed Sancağı), also referred as Early Ottoman Galilee was a sanjak (district) of Damascus Eyalet (Ottoman province of Sidon) during 16th and early 17th centuries, later becoming part of the Sidon Eyalet.

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Selim I

Selim I (Ottoman Turkish: سليم اول, Modern Turkish: Birinci Selim; 1470/1 – September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute (Yavuz Sultan Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520.

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Shia Islam

Shia (شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʻatu ʻAlī, "followers of Ali") is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (Imam), most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam.

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Tripoli Eyalet

Tripoli Eyalet (Eyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām; طرابلس الشام) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.

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Tripoli, Lebanon

Tripoli (طرابلس / ALA-LC: Ṭarābulus; Lebanese Arabic: Ṭrāblos; Trablusşam) is the largest city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country.

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Turkmens

The Turkmens (Türkmenler, Түркменлер, IPA) are a nation and Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, primarily the Turkmen nation state of Turkmenistan.

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Yanouh

Yanouh (يانوح) is a village and municipality in the Jbeil District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assaf_dynasty

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