Ghassan

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Etymology

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Said to be named after a nearby lake of the same name.

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Ghassan

  1. A former Arab kingdom in the Levant which functioned as a client state to the Byzantine Empire.
    • 1744, George Finlay, Greece Under the Romans[1], William Blackwood and Sons, page 322:
      The Arabs or Saracens, who inhabited the district between Kirkesium and Idumæa, were divided into two kingdoms,—that of Ghassan, towards Syria, maintained an alliance with the Romans; []

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