- A
phylarch (Gr****: φύλαρχος, Latin: phylarchus) is a Gr****
title meaning "ruler of a tribe", from phyle, "tribe" +
archein "to rule". In
classical Athens...
- (Imperial Aramaic: 𐡉𐡌𐡋𐡊𐡅, romanized: Yamlīḵū; died 31 BC) was one of the
phylarchs, or
petty princes of the Arab
tribe of the
Emesenes in
Emesa (now Homs...
-
Bedouin raiders. They were
ardent Christians and at
least one of
their phylarchs and kings, Dawud,
built a
Christian monastery, Deir Dawud. The Salihid...
- Arabs. In
response to the loss of Syria, the
Byzantines developed the
phylarch system of
using Armenian and Arab
Christian auxiliaries living on the frontier...
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Jabala ibn al-Ayham (Arabic: جبلة بن الأيهم) was the last ruler, or
phylarch, of the Gh****anid
dynasty in
Syria in the 7th century. He
commanded Arab Christian...
-
brother of Abu
Karab (Abocharabus),
phylarch of
Palaestina Salutaris. He
became ruler of the Gh****anids and
phylarch of
Arabia Petraea and
Palaestina Secunda...
- 450 AD. The
letter had been
written in bad Gr**** by
Phonen and his son,
phylarch Breytek, and was
addressed to Aburni, king of Nobatia. This
letter represents...
- son of al-Harith ibn Jabalah,
ruler of the Gh****anid
tribe and
supreme phylarch of the Arab
foederati in the
eastern frontier of the
Byzantine Empire....
- the sources, the
scholar Irfan Shahîd
identifies Jabalah with the Arab
phylarch known with the
nickname al-Aṣfar (الأصفر),
rendered in Gr**** as Tapharas...
- the Lakhmids. In addition, as
kings of
their own people, they were also
phylarchs,
native rulers of
client frontier states. The
capital was at
Jabiyah in...
