Key facts
- Status
- Dependency of the Sasanian Empire
- Capital
- Al-Hira
- Common languages
- Arabic (spoken, literary, court) Syriac (spoken, literary) Middle Persian (court)
- Religion
- Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (official) Arab paganism (unofficial)
- Government
- Monarchy
- Established
- c. 268
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Encyclopedic overview
Southern Ancient Arab states
Arab empires and caliphates
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lakhmids” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.