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Taifa of Algeciras

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Government
  
Monarchy

Downfall of Caliphate of Córdoba
  
1035

Currency
  
Dirham

Historical era
  
Middle Ages

Founded
  
1035

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Capital
  
Algeciras, currently in Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain

Languages
  
Arabic, Mozarabic, Hebrew

Religion
  
Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism

The Taifa of Algeciras was a medieval taifa kingdom in what is now southern Spain and Gibraltar, that existed from 1035 to 1058.

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History

The taifa was created in 1013, in the wake of the disintegration of the caliphate of Córdoba which began after 1009. When Sulayman ibn al-Hakam took control of the caliphate, he gave Algeciras to the Hammudids, a Berber dynasty who had helped him in gaining the power. The first king of Algeciras was al-Qasim al-Ma'mun, who later was also caliph.

His cousin Yahya al-Mu'tali annexed Algeciras to the taifa of Málaga in 1035. In 1039 Muhammad ibn al-Qasim, son of al-Qasim, was proclaimed emir of Algeciras.

In 1055 al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, lord of Seville, appeared under Algeciras' walls, forcing Muhammad to leave the taifa, which was annexed to that of Seville.

Following its conquest, the kings of Spain (such as Philip IV) sometimes included the kingdom of Algeciras among their titles.

List of Emirs

  • Muhammad ibn al-Qasim: 1035–1048
  • al-Qasim al-Wathiq: 1048–1058
  • References

    Taifa of Algeciras Wikipedia