1010 in Politics - States and Territories Established in 1010, Taifa of Toledo, Taifa of Almera, Taifa of Denia, Taifa of Valencia (Paperback)

Chapters: States and Territories Established in 1010, Taifa of Toledo, Taifa of Almera, Taifa of Denia, Taifa of Valencia, Taifa of Tortosa, Taifa of Morn. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The taifa of Toledo was a Muslim medieval kingdom located in what is now central Spain. It existed from 1035 until the Christian conquest in 1085. Toledo had been the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom smashed by the Islamic conquest of Iberia in the 8th century. Despite the capital of Al Andalus being moved to Crdoba, in succeeding centuries Toledo kept a strategic importance as capital of the "Middle March", maintaining a relative autonomy under the Umayyad caliphate of Crdoba in spite of repeated rebellion. After the beginning of the latter's dissolution and the ensuinig civil wars of the early 11th century, Toledo streghtened its autonomy, the power falling in the hands of powerful local people, including Abu Bala Ya'is ibn Mubammad, Ibn Masarra, Abd al-Rahman and Abd al-Malik ibn Matiyo. Most likely the Toledans, discontented with the latter's government, offered the city to the lord of Santaver, Abd al-Rahman ibn Dul-Nun, who, around 1035, who sent his son Ismail al-Zahir to Toledo to take possession of it. The Banu Dil-Nun were a family of the Berber tribe Hawwara, that had arrived in the peninsula during the Islamic conquest. They settled in the area of Santabariyya or Santaver in the process of Arabization of the 8th to the 10th centuries. Throughout that time Banu Dil-Nun kept on rising up against the Emirate. They regained their autonomy with the decline of the Caliphate during the first decade of the eleventh century: then, possibly, Abd al-Rahman Bin-Nun Dil was made the lord of Santaver, Huete, Ucls and Cuencaobtained by Caliph Sulayman al-...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19274635