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al-Mundhir ibn al-Harith
al-Mundhir ibn al-Harith was king of the Ghassanids from 569, succeeding his father al-Harith ibn Jabala as the Byzantine Empire's chief Arab ally. He defeated the Lakhmids and sacked their capital al-Hira, but was suspected of treachery by the emperors, arrested in 581 and exiled to Sicily, after which the Ghassanid federation fragmented.
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