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Al-Ḥārith ibn Jabalah (Arabic: الحارث بن جبلة) [Flavios] Arethas ([Φλάβιος] Ἀρέθας) in Greek sources and Khālid ibn Jabalah (خالد بن جبلة) in later Islamic sources was a king of the Ghassanids a pre-Islamic Arab people who lived on the eastern frontier of the Byzantine Empire. The fifth Ghassanid ruler of that name he reigned from circa 528 to 569 and played a major role in the wars with Persia and the affairs of the Monophysite Syriac Church.