Complex sentence: Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.530 Bellarmino Bagatti and another Franciscan friar who visited the village in 1935 were hosted by the Mukhtar Mutlaq, whose nine wives and descendants are said to have made up almost the whole of the population of the village at the time.
Split into simpler sentences: Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.530 Bellarmino Bagatti and another Franciscan friar visited the village in 1935. They were hosted by the Mukhtar Mutlaq whose nine wives and descendants are said to have made up almost the whole of the population of the village at the time.