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SALADIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sultan of Syria and Egypt; reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193)
Synonyms:
Saladin; Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub
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Instance hypernyms:
grand Turk; sultan (the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire))