- The
Kalbids (Arabic: بنو كلب, romanized: Banū Kalb) were a
Muslim Arab
dynasty which ruled the
Emirate of
Sicily from 948 to 1053. They were formally...
- as
Fatimid governor from 917 to 936. He was
related by
marriage to the
Kalbids, a high-ranking
family loyal to the Fatimids.
Another major revolt for...
- di Noto and Val di
Mazara regions were
still firmly in the
hands of the
Kalbids. However, the
Norman victory had
scattered Muslim hopes for a
swift counter-offensive...
- 173. Abun-Nasr 1987, pp. 68–69. Bosworth,
Clifford Edmund (1996). "The
Kalbids". The New
Islamic Dynasties: A
Chronological and
Genealogical Manual. Edinburgh...
-
siege of the
Byzantine city of Rometta, in
northeastern Sicily, by the
Kalbids on
behalf of the
Fatimid Dynasty, that took
place between 963 and 965 and...
- of both
Kalbid Sicilians and
Zirid Africans. The
battle resulted in an
important Norman victory as it led to the
abandonment of the
Kalbids by their...
- by the
Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), and
falling only in 965 to the
Kalbids'
Muslim army in the
Siege of Rometta.
Rometta borders the
following muni****lities:...
- of
Ifriqiya also
intervened in
Sicily during the 11th century, as the
Kalbids, the
dynasty who
governed the
island on
behalf of the Fatimids, fell into...
-
allied with
various Christian factions against other factions. In 965 the
Kalbids established the
independence of
their emirate from the
Fatimid Caliphate...
- with
periods of truce. From 948 on, a
series of
hereditary governors, the
Kalbid dynasty,
governed Sicily on the Fatimids' behalf. The
Fatimids also expanded...
