Drvengrad, meaning Wooden Town in Serbian is a mock-traditional village that the Serbian film director Emir Kusturica had built for his film Life Is a Miracle.

Emir (, ( Feminine: Emira, ), meaning " commander ", " general ", or " prince "; also transliterated as Amir, Aamir or Ameer ) is a title of high office, used throughout the Muslim world.

From the start, Emir has been a military title, roughly meaning " general " or " commander.

Drvengrad, meaning Wooden Town in Serbian, is a traditional village that the Serbian film director Emir Kusturica had built for his film Life Is a Miracle.

Samir Saleh Abdullah Al-Suwailem () ( April 14, 1969 – March 20, 2002 ), more commonly known as Emir Khattab ( also transliterated as Amir Khattab and Ameer Khattab ) meaning Commander Khattab, or Leader Khattab, and also known as Habib Abdul Rahman, was a Muslim guerilla fighter and financier working with Chechen Mujahideen in the First Chechen War and the Second Chechen War.

The Emir has also constitutionally dissolved the house several times — meaning that he dissolved it but allowed for elections immediately afterward.

Emir ), meaning " commander ", and the Persian suffix-zād, meaning " birth " or " lineage ".

Under the constitution of Kuwait, the Emir of Kuwait is the supreme commander of the armed forces with a Minister of Defence who directs the Military of Kuwait through the Chief of the General Staff.

When Emir Osman I was appointed commander of the Turkish army on the Byzantine border in the late 13th century, he was symbolically installed via a handover of musical instruments by the Seldjuk sultan.

* Yazaman al-Khadim ( died 891 ): Emir of Tarsus and successful commander in the wars against Byzantium

She married the Atabeg ( commander in chief ) Emir Aybak and abdicated, Aybak becoming Sultan.

He was an Emir / commander of Turkic origin who served with other Turkmens in the court of the Ayyubid sultan as-Salih Ayyub and therefore was known among the Bahri Mamluks as Aybak al-Turkmani.

He raised to the position of Emir ( commander ) and worked as a Jashnkir ( taster of the sultan's food and drink ) and used the rank of a Khawanja ( Sultan's accountant ).

Shajar al-Durr informed Emir Fakhr ad-Din Yussuf Ben Shaykh ( commander of all the Egyptian army ) and Tawashi Jamal ad-Din Muhsin ( the chief eunuch who controlled the palace ) of the Sultan's death but as the country was under the attack of the crusaders they decided to conceal his death.

* 756-Abd ar-Rahman I, Umayyad commander of the Muslims of Al-Andalus, proclaims himself Emir of Córdoba.

Abd ar-Rahman II () ( 788 – 852 ) was Umayyad Emir of Córdoba in the Al-Andalus ( Moorish Iberia ) from 822 until his death.

Abdur Rahman Khan () ( between 1830 to 1844 – October 1, 1901 ) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.

Idris as-Senussi, the Emir of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica and the leader of the Senussi Muslim Sufi order, represented Libya in the UN negotiations, and on 24 December 1951, Libya declared its independence with representatives from Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan declaring a union with the country being called the United Kingdom of Libya, and Idris as-Senussi being offered the crown.

A lithography | lithograph by Emily Eden showing one of the favourite horses of Maharaja Ranjit Singh with the head officer of his stables and his collection of jewels, including the Koh-i-Noor that he extorted from list of monarchs of Afghanistan | Afghan Emir Shuja Shah Durrani.

In the late 1870s, Afghan Emir Sher Ali Khan escaped from Kabul to take refuge in Mazar-e Sharif, which was un-affected by the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th century between Afghanistan and then British India.

The Basmachi had taken refuge in Afghanistan earlier in the decade after they were expelled from Soviet Central Asia by the Soviet military and they swore allegiance to the Emir of Bukhara, who lived in exile in Kabul.

Then, in 929 the Emir of Córdoba ( Abd-ar-Rahman III ), the leader of the Umayyad dynasty, declared himself Caliph, independent from the Abbasids in Baghdad.

Inaugurated as Emir on March 26, Saladin repented " wine-drinking and turned from frivolity to assume the dress of religion.

* Abu Dhabi Defence Force-Drawing on tremendous oil wealth accumulated in the early 1960s, the Emir of Abu Dhabi gave high priority to the development of the Abu Dhabi Defence Force ( ADDF ) when the British withdrawal from the gulf was announced.

* 1147: A new Berber dynasty, the Almohads, led by Emir Abd al-Mu ' min, takes North Africa from the Almoravides and soon invades the Iberian Peninsula.

Emir Abu al-Qasim, who had declared a Holy War ( jihad ) against the Empire, retreated when he noticed the unexpected strength of Otto II's troops when the Emperor was not far from Rossano Calabro.

Four years later, the Fatimid governor was ousted from Palermo when the island declared its independence under Emir Ahmed ibn-Kohrob.

Emir Rodríguez Monegal alleged that many of Derrida's ideas were recycled from the work of Borges ( from essays and tales such as " La fruición literaria " ( 1928 ), " Elementos de preceptiva " ( 1933 ), " Pierre Menard " ( 1939 ), " Tlön " ( 1940 ), " Kafka y sus precursores " ( 1951 )), opening his article with:

The present city of Heraklion was founded in 824 by the Saracens who had been expelled from Al-Andalus by Emir Al-Hakam I and had taken over the island from the Eastern Roman Empire.

That evening, when Haddock returns to Marlinspike, he and Tintin watch a news report featuring their old friend Emir Ben Kalish Ezab, who, flushed with oil profits, plans to buy Windsor Castle from the Government of the United Kingdom and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The next morning, they arrive at the villa, where Castafiore introduces them to a number of her friends — the debutante Angelina Sordi, the corrupt industrialists Mr Gibbons ( from The Blue Lotus ) and Mr Trickler ( from The Broken Ear ), Emir Ben Kalish Ezab ( from Land of Black Gold ), Luigi Randazzo ( a singer ), and Ramó Nash.

Reports were received that the Malik Ghazi Danishmend ( Danishmend Emir ), Ghazi Gümüştekin of Sivas, was preparing an expedition to capture Malatia, and the Armenians sought help from Bohemond.

* Emir Wat Tambor, a character from Star Wars

For some time it had been the practice of the Sublime Porte to appoint the Emir of Mecca from among a select group of candidates.

In 1585 Turks led by Emir ' Ali Bey caused revolts from Mogadishu to Mombasa against the Portuguese landlords ; only Malindi remained loyal to Portugal.

He was the ruler of Transjordan and its successor state, Jordan, from 1921 to 1951 — first as Emir under a British Mandate from 1921 to 1946, then as King of an independent nation from 1946 until his assassination.

Emir is the root of the English military rank " Admiral.

In 1231 the Battle of Jerez took place within the town's vicinity, in which the Christian troops under the command of Álvaro Pérez de Castro, lord of the House of Castro and grandson of Alfonso VII, king of Castile and León, defeated the troops of the Emir Ibn Hud, despite the numerical superiority of the latter.

Meanwhile, according to Major General Hüseyin Hüsnü Emir ( Erkilet ) the Ottoman forces at Beersheba under the command of Ismet Bey consisted of:

* Emir, often rendered Amir in older English usage ; from the Arabic " to command.

Fighters operating on behalf of the Emir were under the command of Ibrahim Bay, a tribal leader.

The Muslim army under the command of Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan, uncle of the Emir Al-Hakam I, attacked Barcelona.

In September 1898 a British battalion led by Lieutenant-Colonel Parsons moved from Kassala toward Gedaref and clashed with a Mahdist Dervishes army composed of 3, 500 men under the command of the Mahdist Emir Sa ' ad-allah in a jungle located between the River Atbara and Gedaref town.