Daher el-Omar Monarch

Daher el-Omar (also: Dhaher, Dhahar) (Arabic ظاهر آل عمر الزيداني ẓāhir Āl ʿumar az-zaydānī, ca. 1690 – August 21, 1775) was the autonomous Arab ruler of Northern Palestine during the mid-18th century. The founder of modern Haifa, he fortified many cities, among them Acre.

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Daher el-Omar
Birth place
Tiberias
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1775
Place of death
Acre Israel
Title
Emir of Nazareth
Governor of Safad
Sheikh of Acre and Galilee

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Monarch

From1730
To1775
successor
Jezzar Pasha

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