MILITARY PERSONNEL

Abu Bakr ibn Umar

1100 - 1088

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Abu Bakr ibn Umar ibn Ibrahim ibn Turgut, sometimes suffixed al-Sanhaji or al-Lamtuni (died 1087; Arabic: أبو بكر بن عمر) was a chieftain of the Lamtuna Berber Tribe and Amir of the Almoravids from 1056 until his death. He is credited to have founded the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, and under his rule the heretic Barghawatas were destroyed. In 1076, he conquered Koumbi Saleh capital of the Ghana Empire, and is credited to have brought Islam in this Western Sub-Saharan Africa region. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Bakr ibn Umar has received more than 160,099 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Abu Bakr ibn Umar is the 751st most popular military personnel (up from 859th in 2019).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Abu Bakr ibn Umar ranks 751 out of 2,058. Before him are Jean II Le Maingre, Ottavio Piccolomini, William Iron Arm, Max von Gallwitz, Doc Holliday, and Fritz Freitag. After him are Chen Youliang, Oswald Boelcke, Wakisaka Yasuharu, Jukums Vācietis, Alexander Marinesko, and Albert Leo Schlageter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1100, Abu Bakr ibn Umar ranks 38. Before him are Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Ragnvald Knaphövde, Jabir ibn Aflah, Niklot, Abu Sa'id Gardezi, and Ingegerd of Norway. After him are Thierry, Count of Flanders, Yağısıyan, Bretislav II, Teobaldo Boccapecci, Igor II of Kiev, and Thoros of Edessa. Among people deceased in 1088, Abu Bakr ibn Umar ranks 3. Before him are Nasir Khusraw, and Berengar of Tours. After him are Hermann of Salm, and John Doukas.

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