Zayyanid

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Zayyanid (not comparable)

  1. of or pertaining to the Zayyanid dynasty.
    • 1987, Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 138:
      The frequent periods of siege were times of stress for its inhabitants (possibly about 100,000 during the Zayyanid period); but Tilimsan, the 'pearl of the Maghrib', also knew periods of felicity in the intervals between wars.
    • 2003, C. R. Pennell, Morocco: From Empire to Independence, Oneworld Publications Limited, page 63:
      He even built a wall tight round the Zayyanid capital, inside which he built a new city with its own palaces and markets to give his operations a permanent base.
    • 2015, Phillip C. Naylor, Historical Dictionary of Algeria, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 534:
      Zayyanid rulers built mosques and madrasas and made their capital a great theological center.

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