Mazara, Also Mazar, Mazara del Vallo

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CityAlso Mazar, Mazara del Vallo

Mazaraمازر

The Sicilian port where the Aghlabid conquest of Sicily began in 827.

The Maliki judge Asad ibn al-Furat, scholar and general, led the Aghlabid fleet ashore here in 827. He died during the siege of Syracuse, but Sicily became Muslim over the following decades.

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