The late amir endeavoured to conciliate him, but he rebelled against him, and after showing conspicuous cowardice and incompetency fled to Russian territory.

Krak des Chevaliers acted as a base for expeditions to Hama in 1230 and 1233 after the amir refused to pay tribute.

In around 1347, the Dughlat amir Bulaji, after seeing the situation in Transoxiana, decided to raise a khan of his own choosing.

* The Marinid amir, Abu Yusuf Yaqub, enters peacefully into Ceuta putting an end to some forty years of independence of the city.

In some of the valleys, however, the Kafirs still hold out, although many of the chiefs submit to the amir at the beginning of February.

In the former sense, the native rulers of Mughal and colonial India and some neighbouring Hindu or Muslim monarchies, like the amir of Afghanistan, received visitors in audience, conferred honours and conducted business in durbar.

In 1610 Pietro Della Valle found a Scot, George Strachan, resident at Anah ( to study Arabic ) as physician to the amir ( i. 671-681 ).

* May 28 – victory of the Transoxania amir Ismail Samani at Balkh over Amr Saffari, the latter is captured and sent to the Abassid caliph in Baghdad.

The Western naval rank " admiral " comes from the Arabic naval title amir al-bahr, general at sea, which has been used for naval commanders and occasionally the Ministers of Marine.

After his death in 1817, his son, Muhammed Bello, succeeded his as amir al-mu ’ minin and became the ruler of the Sokoto Caliphate, which was the biggest state south of the Sahara at that time.

In 838, and again in 905, formidable insurrections occurred in northern Kurdistan ; the amir, Aqpd-addaula, was obliged to lead the forces of the caliphate against the southern Kurds, capturing the famous fortress of Sermaj, whose ruins are to be seen at the present day near Behistun, and reducing the province of Shahrizor with its capital city now marked by the great mound of Yassin Teppeh.

The amir Abdor Rahman Khan dies at Kabul.

The two sons of the amir Shir Ali Khan, Yakub Khan, who was allowed to succeed his father, but was deposed for not preventing Louis Cavagnari's murder, and Ayub Khan, who defeated the British at Maiwand, are still political prisoners in India, and are not likely to be let loose. England.

The old amir called the British to his aid, and, putting himself at the head of his warriors, drove the enemy from his frontiers.

Uvais, who at first had recognized the sovereignty of the Blue Horde, decided to take the former Chobanid lands for himself, even as a former amir of Malek Asraf ’ s named Akhichuq attempted to keep the region in Mongol hands.

* On his birthday in 2007, while talking to PTI at his home, Miyan said, " Kisi raees ki mehfil ka jikra kya hai amir, khuda ke ghar bhi na jayenge bin bulawe ke (" May you discuss a party of a rich man, I will not even go to God's house without invitation.

The previous year the British had signed an agreement with the Russians in which the latter agreed to respect the northern boundaries of Afghanistan and to view the territories of the Afghan amir as outside their sphere of influence.

After only a year, he was shot and killed in the Barzan Palace by his nephew and next amir, Bandar.

And so in less than a year, the Hamdanid chieftains had to return to Mosul ; for a Turkish general called Tuzun, entered Baghdad in triumph, and was saluted as amir al-umara.

In July of that year the caliph proclaimed him as senior amir.

The amir also gives orders to the Afghan officers to treat the Kafirs kindly, and not seek to convert them by force to Islam.

The amir then turned to Abu ' Ali, still residing in Nishapur, Khurasan's provincial capital.

Mansur II was still young when he succeeded his father as amir.

The amir sends a force of militia to occupy the Mittai Valley in Bajaur, where the clans previously received a demand for taxes.

Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

This led the Ottoman government to agree to an arrangement whereby the different nahiyes ( districts ) of the Chouf would be granted in iltizam (" fiscal concession ") to one of the region's amirs, or leading chiefs, leaving the maintenance of law and order and the collection of its taxes in the area in the hands of the appointed amir.

The amir not only refused to receive a British mission but threatened to stop it if it were dispatched.

Within a few months, the new amir had gained the allegiance of most tribal leaders and established control over the cities.

These clubs commonly crossed social strata, including among their membership local notables, dhimmi and slaves – to the exclusion of those associated with the local ruler, or amir.

* Musharrif al-Daula, Buyid amir of Iraq ( d. 1025 )

* December-Sultan al-Daula, Buyid amir of Fars ( b. 993 )

It was during al-Radi's caliphate in 936 that the position of " amir al-umara " was created, which allowed for the transfer of executive power from the caliph to an " amir ", a position that the Buyids later used to establish a new dynasty alongside the Abbasids.

When Huon, son of Seguin count of Bordeaux, passed through the forest where he lives, he was warned against Oberon by a hermit, but his courtesy had him answer Oberon's greetings, and so gain his aid in his quest: having killed Charlot, the Emperor's son, in self-defense, Huon must visit the court of the amir of Babylon and perform various feats to win a pardon, and only with Oberon's aid does he succeed.

In 1857 he was sent on a mission to Kandahar with his younger brother, Sir Peter Lumsden, in connection with the subsidy paid by the Indian government to the amir, and was in Afghanistan throughout the Mutiny.

But in 953 the Arab amir Sayf al-Daula retook Germanicea and entered the imperial territory.

* About 1, 000 Muslim clergymen elect Taliban leader Mohammed Omar as amir al-momineen ( commander of the faithful ), denouncing Rabbani as unfit to lead the Islamic nation.

A treaty between the Bolshevik government of Russia and the amir is signed.

This is due to the leanings of the amir towards Russia and Turkey.

A son and heir is born to the amir.

King George V sends a message of congratulation to the amir, who telegraphs a reply expressing deep appreciation of His Majesty's message, and hoping relations between the countries will grow closer.

The amir is loyal in carrying out the agreement for the removal of outlaws to beyond fifty miles of the Indian frontier, but this has not wholly stopped the raids.