Taifa of Mértola
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The Taifa of Mértola was a medieval taifa
kingdom that existed in what is now southeastern Portugal
for three distinct periods: from 1033 to 1044, from 1144 to 1145 and from 1146 to 1151 when it was finally conquered by the Almohads.
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 in what is now southeastern Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
for three distinct periods: from 1033 to 1044, from 1144 to 1145 and from 1146 to 1151 when it was finally conquered by the Almohads.
Tayfurid dynasty
- Ibn Tayfur: 1033 ?-1044
- To SevilleTaifa of SevilleThe Taifa of Seville was a short lived medieval kingdom, in what is now southern Spain and Portugal. It originated in 1023 and lasted until 1091, and was under the rule of the Arab Abbadid family.-History:...
: 1044-1091 - To MoroccoAlmoravidsThe Almoravids were a Berber dynasty of Morocco, who formed an empire in the 11th-century that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus. Their capital was Marrakesh, a city which they founded in 1062 C.E...
: 1091-1144
- To Seville
Qasid dynasty
- Abu-l-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn QasiAbu-l-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn QasiAbu-l-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Qasi was a Sufi, a political leader of the opposition against the Almoravid dynasty in Al-Garb Al-Andalus and governor of the Taifa of Mértola. He was born and died in Silves in 1151. He was a friend of Ibn al-Arif...
: 1144-1145 d. 1151- To BadajozTaifa of BadajozThe Taifa of Badajoz was a medieval Muslim kingdom in what is now parts of Portugal and Spain and centred on the city of Badajoz which exists today as the first city of Extremadura, in Spain....
: 1145-1146
- To Badajoz
- Abu-l-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn QasiAbu-l-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn QasiAbu-l-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Qasi was a Sufi, a political leader of the opposition against the Almoravid dynasty in Al-Garb Al-Andalus and governor of the Taifa of Mértola. He was born and died in Silves in 1151. He was a friend of Ibn al-Arif...
(restored): 1146-1151- To Morocco: 1151-1250