The Lakhmids or Banū Lakhm were an Arab kingdom that existed just before the time of Islam (c.300–602 AD). Similar to how the Christian Arab Ghassanids, another contemporary Arab kingdom/dynasty, were vassals of the Romans, the Lakhmids (also referred to as al-Manadhira or Naṣrids in reference to their ruling dynasty) were vassals of the Sassanid Persian Empire, that often fought in various proxy wars until they were eventually absorbed into the Persian empire. This video will be an overview of this pre-Islamic Arabic kingdom & their famous white marble capital city of Hira.

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