First period of taïfas

Description and list of the Taïfa S , (Arabic: aṭ-ṭawā' rear yew RTL ملوكالطوائف kingdoms of the factions) (Spanish: Reyes of taifa), term indicating a small kingdom of Moslem Spain, parcelled out for this period.

Dating: 1039 - 1094 (completion of the Conquest almoravide)

Outstanding chiefs: Al-Mutamid Ibn Abbad, the King of Seville

Catch in hand of the Almoravides from the Maghreb, as from 1086, and conquest starting from 1090.

Kingdoms of taïfas

Situation in 1060, rising from the fall of the caliphate of Cordoue:
  • 13 tiny, such of the city-State
  • 10 of intermediate size, including one itself parcelled out (Taifa of Seville)
  • 2 large

Assessment: explosion in 25 Potentate S distinct.

  • the widest territories:
    • Taïfa de Badajoz , Portugal southern
    • Taïfa de Tolède (), Castille-the-Handle current

  • With Raising:

    • Taïfa de Saraqusta () with Saragossa
    • Taïfa de Tudela and Lerida
    • Taïfa de Valence ( Valencia on the chart)

  • Cities-taïfa of Raising:

    • Tortosa
    • Albarracin :
      • Ace Sahia (enclave in the north of Albarracin, Taifa de Tolède) (comparable in Albarracin on the chart above)
      • Alpuente (enclave in the south of Albarracin, Taifa de Tolède)
  • South-eastern

    of the peninsula:

    • Taïfa of Tortosa-Denied (territory: Balearic Islands), which takes Seville thanks to the Cid.
    • Taïfa de Almeria and Murcia () (they are gathered on this date of 1060, contrary to the chart)
    • Taïfa de Grenade: Muhammad bin Nasr will put a term at it, consequently with Almohades.

  • Gibraltar: Taïfa de Giraltar () (transitory)

    • Is of Gibraltar:
      • Taïfa de Cordoue ()
      • Cities-taifa:
        • Carmona
        • Hammudi Yahya Ben Ali, (Málaga and Algesiras)
        • Morón
        • <13ème Taifa not identified at its border sud>
    • Cities-taïfa in the west of Gibraltar:

  • Cities-taïfa related to la Taïfa of Seville, (west of Gibraltar and southern Portugal)
    - introduction of the dynasty of the Abbadides

    • Huelva there Isla de Saltres
    • Mertola
    • Silves
    • Santa Maria del Algarbe

Sovereigns

The reyes of Taifas or Taifat (" kings of the factions" or " Kings of the régions" in Castilian, Arab Moulouk el Tawaïf or Mulûk Al-Tawâif ) are kinglets which reigned in Spain on about thirty often transitory Moslem principalities which followed one another between 1009 and 1091 at the time of the taïfas, then periodically, in the Califat Omeyyade of Cordoue and beyond.

Among these dynasties let us quote:

Contemporary adversaries

See also: Espagnes medieval

Still in position of inferiority to the fall of the Caliphate, the Christians will cut the Couronne of Castille on the reconquered grounds.

2 large and 9 small before 1037.

  • Pyrenean (resulting from the preceding ones Walk S Carolingian born):

    • Aragon
    • Ribagorza
    • Sobrarbe
    • E?
    • county of Pallars
    • county of Urgel
    • county of Roussillon

  • Catalonia except the Pyrenees

    • County of Ampurias
    • County of Barcelona
    • County of Cerdagne (Cerdenya, puigcerdá)

the 6 last are comparable to the Catalan Comtés.

Geographical notes

  • the way of Santiago or " el Camino frances ", the surface follows subsitant to the Christian kingdoms adversaries of the taifas at this time, until the Galician finistère.

  • Frontera goes from Oporto to the West (Atlantic), until Tarragona, in the East (the Mediterranean).

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