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Europe · High and late Middle Ages

Taifa of Niebla

1023/24–1053

Ṭā'ifa Labla. Capital: Niebla. An Arab taifa (Banu Yahsub) under Ahmad al-Yahsubi and successors; annexed by Seville (1053).

Existed
1023/24–1053
Shown on the map
1015–1017, 1028–1055, 1147–1151, 1236–1249 (4 periods)
Peak area
2k km²
Region
Europe

Names

Ṭā'ifa Labla. Capital: Niebla. An Arab taifa (Banu Yahsub) under Ahmad al-Yahsubi and successors; annexed by Seville (1053). Re-emerged in the second and third taifa periods; finally conquered by Castile in 1262.

Common questions

What was the Taifa of Niebla?
Ṭā'ifa Labla. Capital: Niebla. An Arab taifa (Banu Yahsub) under Ahmad al-Yahsubi and successors; annexed by Seville (1053).
When did the Taifa of Niebla exist?
The Taifa of Niebla existed 1023/24–1053. On this map it is drawn 1015–1017, 1028–1055, 1147–1151, 1236–1249.
How large was the Taifa of Niebla?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Taifa of Niebla covered about 2,000 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:

This entry was last updated .

This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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