Taifa of Lisbon information

The Taifa of Lisbon (from Andalusian Arabic: طائفة الأشبونة, romanized: Ṭāʾifa al-Ušbūna) was a medieval Islamic Arab Taifa kingdom of the Gharb al-Andalus...

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

fled to Lisbon, where they created the short-lived taifa of Lisbon, which was soon reconquered by Badajoz. In 1055 Badajoz became a tributary of the Kingdom...

brief time, Lisbon was an independent Muslim kingdom known as the Taifa of Lisbon (1022–1094), before being conquered by the larger Taifa of Badajoz. In...

Sabur ruled successively as emirs of the Taifa of Lisbon. Al-Us̲h̲būna was renovated and rebuilt in the customary pattern of the Middle Eastern city: high...

Castile, captured Toledo in 1085 and invaded the taifa of Zaragoza, the emirs of the smaller taifa kingdoms of Islamic Iberia found that they could not resist...

Taifa of Lisbon (1022–1093) Taifa of Seville (1023–1091) Taifa of Niebla (1023–1262) Taifa of Córdoba (1031–1091) Taifa of Mértola (1033–1151) Taifa of...

Taifa of Mallorca (1018–1203) Taifa of Lisbon (1022–1093) Taifa of Seville (1023–1091) Taifa of Niebla (1023–1262) Taifa of Córdoba (1031–1091) Taifa...

downhill from the Castelo dos Mouros, was the residence of the Islamic Moorish Taifa of Lisbon rulers of the region. The earliest mention in a source is by...

siege of Lisbon, from 1 July to 25 October 1147, was the military action against the Muslim-ruled Taifa of Badajoz that brought the city of Lisbon under...

the Taifa of Seville was also granted independence by Abu'l-Qasim. Sabur's sons fled to Lisbon, where they created the short-lived Taifa of Lisbon, which...

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

of the Taifa of Badajoz of the Aftasid Dynasty, and in 1022 the Taifa of Seville of the Abbadids poets. The Taifa period ended with the conquest of the...

Caliph of Córdoba with the support of Berber troops. The Taifa (independent Moorish kingdom) of Lisbon emerges. It will be annexed by the Taifa of Badajoz...

Taifa Iberian kingdoms when it was attacked by both Christian and Islamic forces. Historic descriptions of Lisbon by Arabic geographers name some of the...

Almoravid taifa kingdom of Valencia and Murcia. The fraction of the crusading forces which had aided the Portuguese in the capture of Lisbon were encouraged...

largest of the Balearic Islands, Majorca, most likely because it was at the time the most prosperous and well-fortified centre of an independent taifa kingdom...

categories: people of Arab, Berber or Slavic origin.[citation needed] Palma was part of the taifa of Dénia. The founder of this state was a client of the Al-Mansur...

all the small taifa stats in the peninsula, the emir of Badajoz offered to become a tributary vassal and to hand over the cities of Lisbon, Sintra and Santarém...

in 1191, retook the city. The buildings of the Taifa kingdoms of the 11th century, which includes the Palace of Balconies (where Al-Mutamid, lived as the...