Taifa of Arjona
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The Taifa of Arjona was a medieval taifa
kingdom that existed from 1232 to 1244 when it fell to the Christian Kingdom of Castile
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Taifa
In the history of the Iberian Peninsula, a taifa was an independent Muslim-ruled principality, usually an emirate or petty kingdom, though there was one oligarchy, of which a number formed in the Al-Andalus after the final collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba in 1031.-Rise:The origins of...
kingdom that existed from 1232 to 1244 when it fell to the Christian Kingdom of Castile
Crown of Castile
The Crown of Castile was a medieval and modern state in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then King Ferdinand III of Castile to the vacant Leonese throne...
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- http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/taifa.html