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Name: Taifa of Tortosa
Type: Polity
Start: 1011 AD
End: 1100 AD
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Taifa of Tortosa
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Was one of the Taifas (independent Muslim principality) in the Iberian Peninsula that emerged in the period following the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba.
Establishment
Chronology
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1. Fragmentation of the Caliphate of Córdoba
The Caliphate disintegrated in the early 11th century during the Fitna of al-Andalus, a civil war between the descendants of caliph Hisham II and the successors of his hajib (court official), Al-Mansur, leading to the establishment of a multitude of independent Muslim kingdoms (taifas).
2. Reconquista
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.
2.1.Conquests of Yusuf ibn Tashfin
Expansion during the rule of Yusuf ibn Tashfin in the Almoravid Caliphate.
