Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Taifa of Carmona
1013–1091
Ṭā'ifa Karmūna. Capital: Carmona. Ruled by the Zanata Berber Banu Birzal: Abd Allah al-Birzali (1013–1023) to al-Mustazhir (1052–1067).
- Existed
- 1013–1091
- Shown on the map
- 1015–1071, 1147–1151 (2 periods)
- Peak area
- 11k km²
- Region
- Europe
Names
Ṭā'ifa Karmūna. Capital: Carmona. Ruled by the Zanata Berber Banu Birzal: Abd Allah al-Birzali (1013–1023) to al-Mustazhir (1052–1067). Annexed by Seville in 1067; later reverted briefly before Almoravid rule.
Common questions
- What was the Taifa of Carmona?
- Ṭā'ifa Karmūna. Capital: Carmona. Ruled by the Zanata Berber Banu Birzal: Abd Allah al-Birzali (1013–1023) to al-Mustazhir (1052–1067).
- When did the Taifa of Carmona exist?
- The Taifa of Carmona existed 1013–1091. On this map it is drawn 1015–1071, 1147–1151.
- How large was the Taifa of Carmona?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Taifa of Carmona covered about 11,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for al-Andalus, the taifas and the Christian kingdoms as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and academic work on the historiography of the Reconquista and the taifa period (García-Sanjuán). The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Taifa of Carmona en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taifa_of_Carmona
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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