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Name: tahirids

Type: Cluster

Start: 1444 AD

End: 1516 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Tahirids
  • Establishment


  • January 1444: Lahij fell to the Tahir clan in 1443.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1455: In the same year the last Rasulid sultan al-Mas'ud Abu al-Qasim gave up his throne in favour of az-Zafir Amir bin Tahir and withdrew to Mecca. The new ruling clan governed Yemen from 1454-1517 as the Tahirid dynasty.

  • January 1455: The last Rasulid sultan al-Mas'ud Abu al-Qasim gave up his throne in favour of az-Zafir Amir bin Tahir and withdrew to Mecca.

  • January 1455: Aden conquered by Tahirids.

  • January 1471: The Kathiri conquered Ash-Shihr in the 1460s.

  • January 1481: Around 1480, the Mahri settled the island of Socotra and used it as a strategic base against their rivals in Hadhramaut.

  • January 1514: Before British administration, Aden was ruled by the Portuguese between 1513.

  • January 1514: By 1513 Dahlak had become a vassal of the Tahirids.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1517: The sultans of Dahlak and the Tahirids were overthrown by the Mamluks of Egypt.
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