The taifas (from Arabic: طائفة ṭā'ifa, plural طوائف ṭawā'if, meaning "party, band, faction") were the independent Muslim principalities and kingdoms of...

ruled by the Almoravids, the Almohads as well as various Andalusian Taifas. Ceuta then experienced a period of political instability, under competing...

the Taifa of Seville. The Taifa of Santa Maria do Algarve lasted from 1018 to 1051, when it became part of the Taifa of Seville. The first Taifa of Silves...

Kingdom of Castile and the Taifa of Valencia. The Castilian victory established the Lordship of Valencia. While Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar was away from Valencia...

in the early 11th century, a series of petty successor states known as taifas emerged. The northern kingdoms took advantage of this situation and struck...

Algeciras and Ceuta. In the mid-11th century, the Hammudids lost control of their Iberian possessions, but retained a small taifa kingdom based in Ceuta. In 1083...

military ties. The Morocco–Spain border separates the plazas de soberanía (including Melilla and Ceuta) on the Mediterranean coast from the Moroccan mainland...

The conflict would eventually divide all of Al-Andalus into a series of Taifa Kingdoms. The Fitna finally ended with the definitive abolition of the Cordoban...

subjugation among the Taifa rulers, Ibn Tashfin resolved to return to Al-Andalus for a third time. He made preparations for his army in Ceuta and crossed the...

Cordoba (929–1031) Taifa of Arjona (1232–1244) Taifa of Barcelona (716–801) Taifa of Baeza (1224–1226) Taifa of Ceuta (1026–1079) Taifa of Constantina and...

Reconquista: Castilian forces under Alfonso VI reconquer Talavera de la Reina in the Taifa of Toledo (modern Spain). King Sancho Ramírez of Pamplona and Aragon...

The conquest of Taifa was a military operation led by the Corona de Castilla, with support Genove, Aragonés and Granadino, through which the city of Tarifa...

Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla in Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France...

constructed. From 1023 Niebla became the capital of the Taifa of Niebla, whose army fought the Taifa of Seville. The battle was lost and Niebla fell under...

first Taifas (1031–c. 1091) The Almoravid rule (c. 1091–c. 1145) The second Taifas (c. 1145–c. 1151) The Almohad rule (c. 1151–1212) The third Taifas (1212–1238)...

Council (Ecumenical Synod) of Santiago de Compostela. 1060 – The heretic Berghouata Berbers set up a Taifa in Ceuta, but are eventually crushed by the Almoravids...

Ifran, the taifa of Ronda. During this period, Ronda gained most of its Islamic architectural heritage. In 1065, Ronda was conquered by the taifa of Seville...

fortified starting from the 10th century. Later Tarifa was held by the taifa of Algeciras (1031) and by that of Seville (1057), and subsequently by the...

Abbadid-inherited taifa of Seville, controlled since 1069, in jeopardy of being taken by the increasingly stronger king of León, Alfonso VI. The Taifa period followed...

Darija en el contexto de la educación secundaria pública en Ceuta". Revista Electrónica de Estudios Filológicos (12). Universidad de Murcia. ISSN 1577-6921...

Balànsia, informed the young King James I, about the riches in the Muslim Taifa of Valencia and they encouraged him to conquer it. It was decided that the...

from Ceuta) be surrendered to him so he could use it as a base for his troops. Al-Mu'tamid agreed. Ibn Tashfin, wary of the hesitation of the Taifa kings...

Yusuf ibn Tashfin captures Ceuta. 1084 14 August. Aragon and Navarre under Sancho Ramírez are defeated by the forces of the Taifa of Zaragoza led by Yusuf...

mounting civil strife led to the fragmentation of al-Andalus into smaller Taifa states in the early 11th century. This marked a precipitous decline in the...

(nominally also a caliphate) in the city, the taifa of Málaga, complemented by the also Hammudid sister dominion in Ceuta across the Strait of Gibraltar. The city...

the Taifa kingdoms on one side, and the Kingdom of Castile on the other, in the Andalusian region. In the second half of the 11th century, the taifa king...

fragmentation of the Andaluz into several independent and rival emirates or taifa states, a circumstance which benefited the Christian kingdoms to the north...

Daniel and companions were seven Friars Minor martyred at Ceuta on 10 October 1227, according to the Chronicle of the Twenty-Four Generals of the Order...

1025 to 1026. He was the son of caliph Ali ibn Hammud. He was governor of Ceuta from 1016, a title he received from his father. After the latter's death...

away, capturing two boats. It enjoyed a brief period of independence as a taifa state from 1035 to 1058. It was named al-Jazirah al-Khadra' ("Green Island")...