Marinid Dynasty
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The Marinid Sultanate was a Berber Muslim empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century which controlled present-day Morocco and, intermittently, other parts of North Africa and of the southern Iberian Peninsula.
Establishment
January 1246: The Merinids begin the conquest of northern Morocco where they make Fez their capital.
Chronology
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Were a series military campaigns from the 8th century until 1492 by the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula to reconquer the region from the Islamic rulers that had conquered it during the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.
January 1273: Faro is conquered by the Portuguese under Alfonso III.
January 1330: Ronda conquered by Marinid Dynasty.
January 1334: The Marinids conquered Gibraltar.
October 1340: Defeat of the Merinids at the Battle of Tarifa in 1340. The Marinids loose all possessions in the Iberian Peninsula but Algesiras.
January 1345: The loss of Algeciras in 1344 to the Castilians marked the end of the dynasty's Iberian ambitions.
January 1372: Territorial change based on available maps.
January 1270: After the death of the last Almohad caliph, the Emirate of Granada, led by Muhammad II al-Faqih, took control of the former Almohad territories in Iberia in 1269.
January 1270: Marrakech captured by the Merinid Abou Youssef Yacoub and fall of the Almohad Empire.
January 1273: Oujda and Sijilmasa lost to Marinids.
January 1300: The Marinid Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr was the sultan of the Marinid Dynasty, a Berber Muslim dynasty. Tlemcen was a city in North Africa, known for its strategic importance and wealth. The siege lasted for 8 years, from 1299 to 1307, as the Marinids sought to expand their territory.
January 1308: End of the Marinid siege of Tlemcen.
January 1310: The Marinid Dynasty conquered Ceuta in 1309.
January 1330: Ronda conquered by Marinid Dynasty.
January 1336: Abu'l Hasan, the ruler of the Marinid Dynasty, initiated a siege of Tlemcen in 1335.
January 1338: Tlemcen conquered by Marinid Dynasty.
January 1348: In 1347 Marinid ruler Abu'l Hasan annexed Ifriqiya, briefly reuniting the Maghrib territories as they had been under the Almohads.
January 1349: In 1348, the Kingdom of Tlemcen experienced a revolt in the central Maghreb region. Abu Sa'id Uthman II, a Zayyanid ruler, was proclaimed as the new king of Tlemcen during this period of unrest.
January 1353: In 1352 Marinid ruler Abu Inan Faris recaptured Tlemcen. He also reconquered the central Maghreb.
January 1354: Bejaia conquered by Marinid Dynasty.
January 1358: Kingdom of Tlemcen conquered by Marinid Dynasty.
January 1360: The Zayyanid king Abu Hammu Musa II (r. 1359-1389) took the throne of Tlemcen.
January 1360: In 1359, Abu Hammu Musa II, the Zayyanid king, ascended to the throne of Tlemcen after the death of the previous ruler. The previous ruler had been forced to return to Fez due to Arab opposition and subsequently fell ill and was killed.
January 1361: The Marinids reoccupied Tlemcen in 1360.
January 1362: End of the Marinid occupation of Tlemcen.
January 1371: Tlemcen conquered by Marinid Dynasty.
January 1372: The Marinids found they were unable to hold the region of Tlemcen and thus left the area.
January 1375: In 1374, the sultanate was split in two following a rebellion in Marrakech. Gibraltar is returned to the Grenadines in return for their military support.
January 1401: In the 14th century, Ibn Khaldoun reported the existence of a walled town which housed a faction of the "laghouat" tribe, a branch of the Berber tribe of the Maghraouas.
August 1415: Portuguese conquest of Ceuta.
January 1459: Alcácer Ceguer conquered by portugal.
Disestablishment
January 1466: In 1465 the last Marinid sultan, Abd al-Haqq II, was finally overthrown and killed by a revolt in Fez, which led to the establishment of direct Wattasid rule over most of Morocco.
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