 Arabic art and science continued to be heavily influential in urban Sicily during the two centuries following the Christian reconquest.Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily in the early 13th century, is said to have been able to speak Arabic (as well as Latin, Sicilian, German, French, and Greek) and had several Muslim ministers.The heritage of the Arabic language can still be found in numerous terms adapted from it and still used in the Sicilian language.