Taifa of Zaragoza

Infobox Former Country
native_name =
conventional_long_name = Taifa of Zaragoza
common_name = Taifa of Zaragoza
national_motto =
continent = Europe
region = Mediterranean
country = Spain
era = Middle Ages
government_type = Monarchy
year_start = 1013
year_end = 1110
event_start = Downfall of Caliphate of Cordoba
event_end = Conquered by the Almoravids
p1 = Caliphate_of_Cordoba
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s2 = Almoravid_dynasty
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image_map_caption = "Taifa" of Zaragoza in 1031 immediately after the fracturing of the caliphate.
capital = Zaragoza
common_languages = Arabic, Mozarabic , Hebrew
religion = Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism
currency = Dirham and Dinar

From 1018 to 1118 Zaragoza was one of the taifa kingdoms, independent Muslim states which emerged in the 11th century following the destruction of the Cordoban Caliphate. During the first three decades of this period, 1018–1038, the city was ruled by the Banu Tujib. In 1038 they were replaced by the Banu Hud, who had to deal with a complicated alliance with El Cid of Valencia and his Castilian Masters against the Almoravids who managed to bring the Taifas Emirates under their control. After the death of El Cid his kingdom was overrun by Almoravids and by 1100 Almoravids had managed to cross the Ebro into Barbastro, which brought Aragon into direct contact with Almoravids, The Banu Hud stubbornly resisted Almoravids and ruled until they were eventually defeated by the Almoravids in May 1110. The last sultan of the Banu Hud, Abd-al-Malik "Imad ad-Dawla", the last king of Zaragoza, forced to abandon his capital, allied himself with the Christian Aragonese under Alfonso I el Batallador and from the time the Muslims of Zaragoza became military regulars within the Aragonese forces.

List of Emirs

Tujibid dynasty

*Mundir I al-Tuybi al-Mansur: c.1013-1021/2
*Yahya: 1021/2-1036
*Mundir II: 1036-1038/9
*'Abd Allah: 1038/9

Huddid dynasty

*Suleiman: 1038/9-1046
*Muhammad al-Hayib Adud ad-Dawla (Calatayud): 1046/7-1066/7 with...
*Lubb (Huesca): 1047-1048 and...
*Mundir al-Hayib al-Zafir Nasir ad-Dawla (Tudela): 1047-1048/9 and...
*Yusuf al-Muzaffar Sayf ad-Dawla (Lérida): 1047-1078/81 and...
*Abu Ya'far Ahmad: 1046-1081 or 82/3
*Yusuf al-Mu'tamin: 1081 or 82/3-1085
*Ahmad II al-Musta'in: 1085-1110
*'Abd al-Malik Imad ad-Dawla (Rueda, Z. 1110 only): 1110-1130
*Abu Dja'far Ahmad Zafadola (Rueda. In Val. 1146): 1130-1131 d. 1146
**Zaragoza to Morocco 1110-1118; Rueda to Castile 1130

External links

* http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/taifa.html

ee also

* Taifa
* Granada
* History of Islam
* History of Spain
* Al-Andalus