Kalfun

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Kalfun was the first emir of Bari during the Arba control of that Apulian city.

Kalfun came from the Aghlabid emirate in North Africa. He was a former servant, and maybe even had once been a slave.

In 847 he lead Arab forces that captured the formerly Byzantine city of Bari, and he set himself up as the emir in that city.

[edit] References

• Kreutz, Barbara M. Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. p. 38