1090s Disestablishments - 1091 Disestablishments, 1092 Disestablishments, 1093 Disestablishments, 1099 Disestablishments, Taifa of Seville (Paperback)

Chapters: 1091 Disestablishments, 1092 Disestablishments, 1093 Disestablishments, 1099 Disestablishments, Taifa of Seville, Taifa of Cordoba, Glywysing, Old Minster, Winchester, Taifa of Tortosa, Taifa of Lisbon, Taifa of Murviedro and Sagunto. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. 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 Seville (Arabic:, Ta'ifa Ishbiliya) was a short lived medieval kingdom, in what is now southern Spain and Portugal. It originated in 1023 and lasted until 1091, and was under the rule of the Arab Abbadid family. The first king of Seville was Abu al-Qasim (1023-1042). He was qadi of Seville and declared independence of the province of Seville from Caliphate of Cordoba after its downfall in 1031, becoming king of Seville as Abbad I. The second king was his son Abbad II Al-Mu'tadid (1042-1069), the last ruler being Al-Mu'tamid (1069-1091). The kingdom started as a small, weakly defended territory comprising parts of current Spanish provinces of Seville, Huelva and Cadiz, but quickly emerged as the most powerful taifa kingdom of the time, after its rulers began pursuing a policy of expansion. After several military campaigns, the kingdom achieved dominance over all of Western Andalusia and Murcia, gradually absorbing the taifas of Badajoz, Algeciras, Granada and Malaga, Mertola (1044), Huelva (1051), Algarve (1051), Niebla (1053) Algeciras (1055), Silves (1063), Ronda (1065), Moron (1066), Carmona (1067), Arcos (1069) and even Cordoba itself (1070, lost in 1075 to Toledo but regained in 1077). The kingdom reached its largest territorial extent in 1078 with the capture of Murcia in 1078 by poet Abu Bakr Ibn Ammar. Nevertheless, the Abbad family was still subject to taxation by the King of Castile, to whom they were vassals. The drain of these taxes weakened the ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=15020925