Taifa of Badajoz

Infobox Former Country
native_name = "Ta'waif al-Batalyaws"
conventional_long_name = Taifa of Badajoz
common_name = Taifa of Badajoz
national_motto =
continent = Europe
region = Mediterranean
country = Spain
era = Middle Ages
government_type = Monarchy
year_start = 1009
year_end = 1151
life_span = 1009 - 1094
1144 - 1151
event_start = Downfall of Caliphate of Córdoba
event_end =
p1 = Caliphate_of_Cordoba
flag_p1 =
s1 = Almoravid_dynasty
flag_s1 =
s2 = Almohad_dynasty
flag_s2 =

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image_map_caption = Political map of Iberia in 1131 (simplified), featuring Badajoz on the west coast of the peninsula.
capital = Badajoz
common_languages = Arabic, Mozarabic , Hebrew
religion = Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism
currency = Dirham and Dinar

The Taifa of Badajoz (from _ar. "Ta'waif al-Batalyaws") was a small Muslim kingdom centred on the city of Badajoz which exists today as the second city of Extremadura, in Spain. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/580659/taifa] It rose, like the other Taifa kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, after the fragmentation of Al-Andalus (the Caliphate of Cordoba) in the late 900s and early 1000s.

It was invaded and conquered several times, by various neighbouring kingdoms, the Almoravids and Almohads (along with many other Muslim kingdoms), and finally by the Christian Portugal and Kingdom of León-Castile.

The Emirs of Badajoz

*Abu Muhammad Abdallah ben Muhammad el Sapur al-Saqlabi: 1013-1022 (Slavic ruler).
*Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Maslamah ibn al-Aftas: 1022-1027 (Aftasid dynasty) (Al-Mansur I of Badajoz).
*Emirate of Sevilla control: 1027-1034.
*Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Maslamah ibn al-Aftas: 1034-1045 (Aftasid dynasty) (Al-Mansur I of Badajoz) (second time).
*Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Muzzaffar: 1045-1067 (Aftasid dynasty) (Modafar I of Badajoz).
*Yahya ibn Muhammad al-Mansur: 1067-1073/1079 (Aftasid dynasty) (Al-Mansur II of Badajoz).
*'Umar ibn Muhammad al-Mutawakkil: 1073/1079-1094 (Aftasid dynasty).
*Almoravids rule: 1094-1144.
*Aben Hacham: 1144-1145.
*To the Emir of Al'Garb Al'Andalus (Silves, in the Algarve) 1145-1146.
*Sidrey 1146-1151.
*Almohads control: 1151-1169.
*Portuguese control: 1169-1170.
*Almohads control: 1170-1227.
*Kingdom of León-Castile control: 1227 - present, except for the western part, under Portuguese control.