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The first document mentioning Alcamo is from 1154, a document by the Arab geographer Idrisi.
Not many years later, ibn Jubayr describes the city as a beleda ( town with mosques and a market ).
In the Middle Ages Alcamo was largely inhabited by Muslim people, whose numbers declined however after the Norman conquest of Sicily, begun in 1060.
A series of Arab revolts between 1221 and 1243 led King Frederick II to move much of the Arab population to a colony at Lucera, while Christians from Bonifato came to inhabit the city.
In this period was born the famous poet Ciullo or Cielo d ' Alcamo.

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