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IMPORTANTThe Royal House of Ghassan follows the customary monarchical tradition of non-interference in partisan politics and does not actively seek regime change in any country. On the contrary, the Ghassanid Princes sworn to serve the Middle Eastern people without asking anything in return continuing to fulfill their millennial role of serving as a bridge between the Middle East and the West

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Corroborating references to the Ghassanid family tree and Royal Claims:

The bloodlink between the El Chemor/Gharios/Guerios family with the Kings of Ghassan, the Nikephorian Dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, the Sultans of Rasul, the Princely Houses of Al-Akoura, Zgharta-Zeiywe and Jabal Shammar

 – Reverend F. Ignatius Tannous, W.L.M Sheikhs El Chemor;
– Reverend F. Boutros Daou, History of the Maronites, part 4, page 359;
– El Manara magazine, 1982, No. 3, page 367;
– Reverend F. Louis El Hachem, History of Akoura, page 37;
– Reverend F. Boulos Moubarak, History of Father Tadi’s families, page 307;
– Archbishop Boutros Hobeika, History of Baskinta, page 145;
– Dictionary in language and information, page 391;
– Mohsen A. Yammine, Newspaper of the future (Jaridat al Mustaqbal), dated 9/12/1999
– Dictionary in the language and information, page 401;
– Abou Assad Ahmad, Dictionary of the names of families and people, page 490;
– Father Charbel Abi Khalil, Bishop Boulos Moussa, page 212;
– Afif Merhej, Get acquainted with Lebanon, part 8, pages 376 and 379;
– Electronic site “The free word” for Zghorta district, kalimahorra.com
– Father Ignatius Tannous El Khoury “Maronite diocese of Tripoli”, book No. 4, page 241;
– Fadia Daaboul in the electronic site of the free national current, tayyar.org
– Saoud family, )D. Moudi daughter of Mansour son of King Abd El Aziz, Emigration and consequences under King Abc El Aziz, printing houses of Oum El Koura university, 1419 H, page 38;
– King Abd El Aziz and Koweit conference (1923-1924 )Oum El Koura printing houses, 1419 H, page 126.

The continuation of the Ghassanid Dynasty after the fall of the first State (638 CE)

– Bowesock/Brown/Grabar “Late Antiquity” –, Harvard University Press, 1999
– Khoury, Ignatious Tannos, The Sheikhs Chemor rulers of Akoura (1211-1633 CE) and rulers of Zawie (1641-1747 CE)” Beirut, Lebanon, 1948
– Kazhdan, Alexander “Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium”. Oxford University Press
– Shahîd, Irfan, “Byzantium and the Arabs in the sixth century” Dumbarton Oaks – Harvard University
– Shahid, Irfan, “Ghassan post-Ghassan” Festschrift  “The Islamic World – From classical to modern times”, for Bernard Lewis, Darwin Press l989
– Al Tabari, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr, “Tarik” (Cairo, 1966)
– Zahran, Yasmine, “Ghassan resurrected” Stacey International (1991)

The El Chemor/Gharios/Guerios family’s legal claims:

– De Meroe, Dr. Mario Silvestre, “International Nobiliary Traditions” (Tradições Nobiliarias Internacionais) , pg.62-63
– Ian Brownline Q.C, Principles of Public International Law
– de Meroe, Dr. Mario Silvestre, “Studies on Nobiliary Law” (Estudos sobre Direito Nobiliário),
– David Holden and Richard Johns, “The House of Saud”
– Baroni Santos, Waldemar (1978); “Tratado de Heraldica – Direito Nobiliário V.I”
– Baroni Santos, Waldemar (1990); “Tratado de Heraldica – Direito Nobiliário V.II”
– Baroni Santos, Waldemar (2004); “Tratado de Heraldica – Direito Nobiliário V.III”
– Baroni Santos, Waldemar (2007); “Tratado de Heraldica – Direito Nobiliário V. IV”
– Vattel, Emmerich (1883); “The Law of Nations”
– Michelle Francesco, Renato (1951); “Il Angelo Comneno D’empiro e La Sua Discendenza”
– Vincent, Andrew (2002); “Nationalism and Particularity”
– Bonavides, Paulo ;”Political Sciences” (Ciência Política)
– Grotius, Hugo (1625), “On the Law of War and Peace, Book I, chapter IV, number 5”

Also, by vast jurisprudence:


– 1870 – Court of Appeal of Naples in 03/16/1870
– 1871 – Italian Supreme Court of Cassation, ratified the verdict given by the Court of Appeal of Naples on 03/16/1870.
– 1872 – Court of Appeal of Naples in 02/05/1872
– 1909 – Court of Naples 10/22/1909
– 1914 – Civil and Penal Court of Avezzano in 12/03/1914
– 1923 – Italian Supreme Court of Cassation in 04/25/1923
– 1945 – Court of Cassona in 06/05/1945
– 1945 – Court of Bari in 08/20/1945
– 1946 – Court of Catania in 09/14/1946
– 1947 – Civil court of Naples in 06/06/1947
– 1948 – Court of Rome in 09/10/1948
– 1949 – Court of Vico Gargano verdict number 217/49
– 1950 – Court of Perugia in 03/27/1950
– 1952 – Unified Court of Rome in 03/22/1952
– 1955 – Court of Santa Agata de Puglia 06/25/1955
– 1987 – Court of Republic of San Marino Case No. 184/1987
– 2003 – Ordinary Court of Ragusa 02/17/2003

- 2011 - Arbitral court (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 07/18/2011   

​- 2012 - Los Angeles Superior Court - case number: BS-135337 - 02/24/2012 

​- 2013 - Judges technical opinion (Espirito Santo, Brazil) 08/01/2013  

- 2016 - Los Angeles Superior Court - case number: BS-159726 - 03/15/2016 

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