Taifa of Zaragoza
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The taifa of Zaragoza (Template:Langx) was an independent Arab[1][2][3] Muslim state in the east of Al-Andalus (present-day Spain) with its capital in Saraqusta (Zaragoza) city. It was established in the early 11th century as one of the many Taifa kingdoms that followed the collapse of the Caliphate of Córdoba around this time. It survived until 1110, when it was annexed by the Almoravids.
History
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The Banu Hud stubbornly resisted the Almoravid dynasty and ruled until they were eventually defeated by the Almoravids in May 1110. The last sultan of the Banu Hud, Abd-al-Malik, and Imad ad-Dawla of Saraqusta, were forced to abandon the capital. Abd-al-Malik allied himself with the Christian Aragonese under Alfonso I of Aragon and from then on the Muslim soldiers of Saraqusta served in the Aragonese forces. Soon afterwards (1118) a good deal of the old taifa, including the city of Zaragoza, was conquered by the Christian kingdom of Aragon, and remained in Christian hands thereafter.
Between c. 1040 and c. 1105, the Taifa of Lérida was separate from that of Zaragoza.
List of rulers
This list is taken from a list compiled by A. García-Sanjuán in The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia:[4]
- Al-Mundhir ibn Yahya al-Tujibi: c. 1013–1021/2
- Yahya ibn al-Mundhir: 1021/2–1036
- Al-Mundhir ibn Yahya: 1036–1038/9
- Abd Allah ibn al-Hakam al-Tujibi: 1038/9
- Al-Musta'in I: 1038/9–1046
- Ahmad al-Muqtadir: 1046–1081/3
- Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud: 1081/3–1085
- Al-Musta'in II: 1085–1110
- 'Abd al-Malik Imad ad-Dawla: 1110
See also
References
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- 12th-century disestablishments in al-Andalus