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Hasan al-Kalbi
Hasan al-Kalbi was the first emir of Sicily of the Kalbid dynasty, appointed by the Fatimid caliph al-Mansur in 948 to restore order on the island. He suppressed revolts in Palermo, fought the Byzantines in Calabria and founded a hereditary line that ruled Sicily under Fatimid overlordship until the 1050s.
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