From the 700s CE, the North African city of Tunis was an important naval base for early Muslim rulers. Then it briefly became the western center of a new Muslim empire (the Fatimids) before they moved their capital to Cairo. In which small village in southern Lebanon, close to the ancient port of Tyre, did that same Fatimid empire also once rule?

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Shamaa. From the early 8th century, Tunis was the naval base of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs in the western Mediterranean before control of Ifriqiya passed to the Fatimid Caliphate. Farther east, Shamaa near Tyre was likewise governed in turn by the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid Caliphate rulers.