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Noun: Saladin  sa-lu-din
  1. Sultan of Syria and Egypt; reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193)
    - Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub

Type of: grand Turk [archaic], sultan

Encyclopedia: Saladin