Taifa of Granada

Infobox Former Country
native_name = طائفة غرناطة
"Reino Taifa de Granada"
conventional_long_name = Taifa Kingdom of Granada
common_name = Kingdom of Granada
national_motto =
continent = Europe
region = Mediterranean
country = Spain
era = Middle Ages
government_type = Monarchy
year_start = 1013
year_end = 1091
event_start = Downfall of Caliphate of Córdoba
event_end = Death of last king and annexion to Almoravids
p1 = Caliphate_of_Cordoba
flag_p1 =
s2 = Almoravid_dynasty
flag_s2 =




image_map_caption =
capital = Granada
common_languages = Arabic, Mozarabic , Hebrew
religion = Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism
currency = Dirham and Dinar

The Taifa of Granada (Arabic: "طائفة غرناطة " , "Ta'ifa Garnata" ) was a kingdom in what is now Granada province in Spain. The kingdom originated in 1013 and lasted until 1091.

"Garnata" or "Garnata al-Yahud" was a settlement next to the town the Christians called "Elvira", after the former Iberian name "Ilbira". It was the capital of a province of Caliphate of Córdoba. Civil conflicts that wracked the Caliphate in the early eleventh century led to the destruction of the city in 1010. Zawi ben Ziri, the Zirid chief of one of the armies that took part in the Caliphate civil war that destroyed Medina Azahara in Córdoba, and after destroyed Medina Elvira. He founded the Emirate of Granada or first Taifa Kingdom of Granada and moved the capital from Elvira to Garnata al-Yahud.

The Zirid was a family from northern Africa whose members became chiefs and kings in many other parts of Islam, as in Ifriqiya or Tunisia.

The Kingdom ended after the arrival of Almoravids in 1091 who took the city and united it to their empire.

ee also

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

External links

* [http://www.balagan.org.uk/war/iberia/0711/chronology1008.htm War upon Iberia]
* [http://personales.ya.com/rpmg/cga/libcrongeo/node170.html]
* [http://www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/histesp/contextos/6112.htm]