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Of Saladin are identified two strains, one in western Sicily and one in the province of Catanzaro, Salardino, very rare, it would seem Sicilian Palermo and Misilmeri in the Palermitano, should be due to an alteration of the previous, which could Derive from nicknames linked to the name of Salah El-Din Al-Ayubi, known as Saladin (1169-1250), the famous "ferocious Saladin", founder of a great Muslim state and leader of the unfaithful army opposed to the Crusaders. Ancient traces of this surname are already found in 1200, in an act drawn up in Luni (SP) in 1279 it reads: "... ET Gualteroto Q. Domini Saladini de Fosdenova (Fosdinovo (MS)) et aliis... ". Additions provided by Carlo Barbieri Salah El-Din is a surname always spread in the Islamic area like many others who have in common the word Din which means religion. Salah El-Din, pronounced Salah Ed-Din, means prayer (or praise) of religion. One can therefore hypothesize that it can be treated simply as italianizations of that surname.
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