Almoravid
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editBorrowed from Spanish almorávide, from Arabic مُرَابِط (murābiṭ).
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editAlmoravid (plural Almoravids)
- (historical) A member of a Berber dynasty that started in 11th-century Morocco.
- 1920 October, Edith Wharton, In Morocco[1], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons:
- The Almoravid army was a strange rabble of Arabs, Berbers, blacks, wild tribes of the Sahara and Christian mercenaries. They conquered the Spanish forces, and Youssef left to his successors an empire extending from the Ebro to Senegal and from the Atlantic coast of Africa to the borders of Tunisia.
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