Flashcards: Berber dynasties

The Marinid dynasty (Berber: Imrinen, Arabic: Marīniyūn) or Banu abd al-Haqq was a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Zenata Berber descent that ruled Morocco from the 13th to the 15th century.

The Hammadid dynasty was a Sanhaja Berber dynasty that ruled an area roughly corresponding to north-eastern modern Algeria for around a century and a half (1008–1152), until its realm was conquered by the Almohad Caliphate.

The Taifa of Ronda was a medieval berber taifa kingdom that existed in Moorish al-Andalus (in what is now southern Spain) from 1039 to 1065.

Numidia (202 BC – 46 BC) was an ancient kingdom of the Numidians, located in what is now Algeria and a smaller part of Tunisia in the Maghreb.

The Taifa of Granada (Arabic: طائفة غرناطة, Ta'ifa Garnata‎‎) was a Berber kingdom in Al-Andalus, within the present day Granada Province in southern Spain.

The Zirid dynasty (Arabic: زيريون‎‎ Zīryūn) was a Sanhaja Berber dynasty, which ruled Ifriqiya in the Maghreb from 973 to 1148.

The Taifa of Albarracín was a medieval Berber taifa kingdom.

The Taifa of Arcos was a berber medieval taifa kingdom that existed in two periods; first from 1011 to 1068.

The Taifa of Morón was a medieval berber taifa kingdom that existed from around 1010 to 1066.

The Taifa of Carmona was a medieval Berber taifa kingdom.

The Taifa of Alpuente was a medieval berber taifa kingdom that existed from around 1009 to 1106 created following the end of the Caliphate of Córdoba in the Iberian Peninsula in 1010.

The Taifa of Badajoz (from Arabic: طائفة بطليوس ) was a medieval Muslim kingdom in what is now parts of Portugal and Spain and centred on the city of Badajoz which exists today as the first city of Extremadura, in Spain.

The Barghawatas (also Barghwata or Berghouata) were a group of Berber tribes on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, belonging to the Masmuda confederacy.

The taifa of Toledo was a Berber Muslim medieval kingdom located in what is now central Spain.

The Zayyanid dynasty (Arabic: زيانيون‎‎, Ziyānyūn) or Abd al-Wadids (Arabic: بنو عبد الواد‎‎, Bānu ʿabd āl-Wād) are a Berber Zenata dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Tlemcen, an area of northwestern Algeria, centered on Tlemcen, whose territory stretched from Tlemcen to the Chelif bend and Algiers, and reached at its zenith the Moulouya river to the west, Sijilmasa to the south and the Soummam river to the east.

Mauretania (also spelled Mauritania) was in ancient times a part of North Africa corresponding to the Mediterranean coast of what is today Morocco (and the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla).

The Idrisids (Arabic: الأدارسة‎‎ al-Adārisah, Berber: Idrisiyen) were an Arab Zaydi-Shia dynasty of Morocco, ruling from 788 to 974.

The Kingdom of Nekor (Berber: ⵜⴰⴳⴻⵍⴷⵉⵜ ⵏ ⴻⵏⵏⴽⵓⵔ (Tageldit n Ennkur)) was an emirate centered in the Rif area of present-day Morocco.

The Khurasanid Dynasty (Arabic: بنو خراسان‎‎, Banu Khurasan) was a Sunni-Muslim dynasty that ruled an independent principality in Tunis from 1059 to 1158.

The Aftasid dynasty (from the Arabic Banu-l'Aftas or Banu al-Aftas) was a Berber Miknasa dynasty in Badajoz (1022–1094) in Al Andalus (Moorish Iberia).

The Ifranids, also called Banu Ifran, Ifran, or the children of the Ifran (Arabic: بنو يفرن‎‎, Banu Yifran), were a Zenata Berber tribe prominent in the history of pre-Islamic and early Islamic North Africa.

The Kingdom of Kuku was a medieval Berber kingdom that ruled over much of greater Kabylia.

The Kingdom of Ait Abbas was a Kabyle kingdom founded in 1520 which ruled over much of lesser kabylia and the Soummam Valley, extending into the Sahara.