Almoravide

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Almoravide [ælˈmɔːrəˌvaɪd], Almoravid [ælˈmɔːrəvɪd]

(Social Science / Peoples) a member of a fanatical people of Berber origin and Islamic faith, who founded an empire in N Africa that spread over much of Spain in the 11th century a.d

[from Arabic al-murābitūn the holy ones]

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