Taifa of Majorca
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The Taifa of Majorca was a medieval Moorish
taifa
kingdom which existed from 1018 to 1203 in Majorca.
Moors
The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of the Maghreb region who are predominately of Berber and Arab descent. They came to conquer and rule the Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 years. At that time they were Muslim, although earlier the people had followed...
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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 which existed from 1018 to 1203 in Majorca.
Mujahid dynasty
- Mujahid (Emir of Majorca): 1018-1041
- 'Ali Iqbal ud-Dawlah: 1041-1075
Aglabid dynasty
- Ibn Aglab al-Murtada: 1076-1093
- Mubassir: 1093-1114
- Abu-l-Rabi Sulayman "El Burabe": 1114-1126
Ghaniyid dynasty
- Muhammad I: 1126-1156
- Ishaq: 1156-1183
- Muhammad II: 1183-1184 d. 1187
- 'Ali (Emir of Majorca): 1184-1185
- Muhammad II (restored): 1185-1187
- Tasfin: 1187
- Yahya (Emir of Majorca): 1187-1203
- To Almohads: 1203-1229
Sources
- http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/taifa.html