Di-l-Nun (died 1043 in Toledo), also known as Ismaíl al-Zafir, Ismaíl az-Záfir or simply “Al-Zafir” (the victor) was the first ruler of the Taifa of...

(Arabic: ﺑﻨﻮ ذي اﻟﻨﻭﻦ) was a Muslim Berber dynasty that reigned over the Taifa of Toledo in al-Andalus in the 11th century. According to ibn 'Idhari, the family’s...

lands of the Banu Di-l-Nun family. In 1072 he entitled himself rex Spanie. In 1074, in alliance with Al-Mamun, ruler of the Taifa of Toledo, Alfonso waged...

annexed Toledo, a turning point which galvanized the remaining taifa leaders into seeking outside help. After the fall of Toledo, most of the major taifa rulers...

secured the Borders, King Alfonso conquered the powerful Taifa kingdom of Toledo in 1085. Toledo, which was the former capital of the Visigoths, was a very...

started a loose siege of Toledo and later the next year the Christians captured Salamanca, a stronghold of the Taifa of Toledo.[citation needed] In 1086...

sovereign states — taifas — under the same governors that had been named by the last Umayyad Caliphs. According to their origin, these "taifas" can be grouped...

infighting, the caliphate fractured into a number of independent Muslim taifa (kingdoms). The period was characterized by an expansion of trade and culture...

Toledo Banu Qantir – Taifa of Toledo Saqlabi dynasty (AD 1010–1060) – Taifa of Valencia and Taifa of Tortosa Dammarid dynasty (AD 1010–1066) – Taifa of...

present-day Andalusia, with the exception of the taifa zirí de Granada. After the conquest of Toledo in 1085 by Alfonso VI, the Castilian-Leonese threat...

Abbadid Taifa of Seville entered Córdoba to help in the defence of the city, which had been besieged by al-Mamun of Toledo, ruler of Toledo, yet they...

territory.[citation needed] After the first incursion of Tarik, who reached Toledo in 711, the Yemeni viceroy of Ifriqiya, Musa bin Nusayr, crossed the Strait...

cora), or territory, of the Caliphate of Córdoba, then made capital of the Taifa of Seville (Arabic: طائفة أشبيليّة, Ta'ifa Ishbiliya), which was incorporated...

Madrid was integrated in the Taifa of Toledo. In the context of the wider campaign for the conquest of the taifa of Toledo initiated in 1079, Madrid was...

July. Hisham II restored as caliph. (Date unknown). Taifa of Valencia formed. 1012 (Date unknown). Taifa of Dénia founded under the warlord Mujahid al-Amiri...

including the Visigoths, who formed the Visigothic Kingdom centred on Toledo. In the early eighth century, most of the peninsula was invaded by the Umayyad...

invasion and the ousting of the Umayyads. In its stead arose the independent taifa principalities under the rule of local Muwallad, Arab, Berber, or Slavonic...

became an independent Taifa of Zaragoza, initially controlled by the Tujibid family, then ruled by the Banu Hud from 1039. The taifa greatly prospered in...

more tolerant practices of the past. Al-Andalus broke up into a number of taifas (fiefs), which were partly consolidated under the Caliphate of Córdoba....

feudal era and later, (many in Italy, the Holy Roman Empire, the Moorish taifa in Iberia, essentially tribal-type but urbanised regions throughout the...

was elected, depending on the period, by the Divan of Algiers or by the Taïfa of the raïs (Assembly of the corsairs). The elected deys also bore the title...

hegemony over the Iberian peninsula include the submission of most of the taifas (Islamic factional kingdoms) to his suzerainty by the payment of parias...

expansion. This included a joint Catalan and Pisan Crusade against the Taifa of Majorca (1114) and the conquest of Tarragona (1116), restoring in the...

same year, he was appointed chief qadi of Córdoba, then controlled by the Taifa of Seville, a prestigious office that his grandfather had once held. In...

other taifas, especially the taifa of Balansīya (Valencia), asking for relief, but with the recent arrival of the Almohads in Iberia, the taifas could...

Taifa of Seville Taifa of Badajoz Taifa of Granada Taifa of Almería Taifa of Málaga Defeat Start of Almoravid conquest of Al-Andalus Siege of Toledo (1090)...

Summer. Alexander II sanctions the Crusade of Barbastro against the Muslim Taifa of Lérida. 16 August. Alp Arslan and Nizam al-Mulk capture the Byzantine...

unification under Navarrese hegemony and success in the Reconquista against the taifa kingdoms that replaced the fallen caliphate. In Eastern Europe, there was...

2024-03-20. Antonio Pareja (1999). Mezquita de Bab al Mardum, Cristo de la Luz, Toledo 999–1999. Fundacíon Cultura y Deporte Castilla-La Mancha, Junta de Comunidades...

of Quesada. Battle of Jerez: Ferdinand III defeats Emir Ibn Hud of the Taifa of Murcia. Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, negotiates a 3-year truce...