Dictionary

Emirate of Sicily en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (historical) A medieval Islamic state that ruled Sicily from 831 until falling to the Normans in 1091; specifically, the state ruled by the Kalbids, from 948 to 1091.
   • 1992 [Rosemont Publishing & Printing], Peter Sammartino, William Roberts, Sicily: An Informal History, 2001, Cromwall Books, Paperback, page 44, After becoming the capital of the Arab Emirate of Sicily, Palermo became a center of a cultural assimilation that was developed during the Arab conquest of the Mediterranean region and the Middle East.
   • In the ninth century, during the Emirate of Sicily, the bitter orange was introduced in Sicily. 2018, Antonio Capurso, Gaetano Crepaldi, Cristiano Capurso, Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet in the Elderly Patient, Springer, page 235:
   • In Italy, similar devices are found both in Puglia and in Sicily, where the town of Palermo still takes a proportion of its water out of a network of qanats (see Todaro, 2014); the Arabic term being employed in Palermo since the town's history as the capital of the Emirate of Sicily has led many to assume that the structures are of Arabic origin. 2019, Lorenzo Caponetti, “Chapter 21: The Invisible Landscape”, in Christian Isendahl, Daryl Stump, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology, Oxford University Press, page 415:

Forms

Relateds

Kingdom of Sicily · Emirate of Bari

Translations (5)

fr émirat de Sicile (historical emirate which ruled Sicily) · de Emirat von Sizilien (historical emirate which ruled Sicily) · hi सिसिली अमीरात (historical emirate which ruled Sicily) · ar إِمَارَة صِقِلِّيَة (historical emirate which ruled Sicily) · it Emirato di Sicilia (historical emirate which ruled Sicily)