Saladin

//ˈsælədɪn// name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    First sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, who led the Muslim opposition to the European Crusaders in the Levant.
  2. 2
    A governorate in northern Iraq.

Etymology

From Arabic صَلَاحُ الدِّين (ṣalāḥu d-dīn).

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