Taifa of Murcia
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 Taifa Kingdom of Murcia, c. 1037.
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| Capital | Murcia | |||||||||
| Languages | Arabic, Mozarabic, Ladino, Berber | |||||||||
| Religion | Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism | |||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Downfall of Caliphate of Córdoba | 1011 | ||||||||
| • | To Almeria/Valencia | 1014–1038 / 1038–1065 | ||||||||
| • | To Seville/Almoravids | 1078–1091 / 1091–1145 | ||||||||
| • | To Valencia | 1145–1147 | ||||||||
| • | To the Almohads | 1172–1228 | ||||||||
| • | Annexed by Castile | 1266 | ||||||||
| Currency | Dirham and Dinar | |||||||||
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The Taifa of Murcia was one of the Taifas of medieval Al-Andalus, in what is now southern Spain. It became independent as a taifa centered on the Moorish city of Murcia after the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba (11th century). Moorish Taifa of Murcia included Albacete and part of Almería as well.
The taifa is apparently the one that existed the greatest number of separate time periods (five): from 1011 to 1014, from 1065 to 1078, in 1145, from 1147 to 1172 and finally from 1228 to 1266 when it was absorbed by Castile.
The Kingdom of Murcia later would become one of the kingdoms of the Crown of Castile.
In the year 713, only two years after the Moorish invasion of the Peninsula, the emir Abd al Aziz occupied the province. Murcia was founded with the name of Medinat Mursiya in A.D. 825 by Abd ar-Rahman II, emir of Al-Andalus. The Moors, taking advantage of the course of the river Segura, created a complex network of irrigation channels that made the town prosperous and is the predecessor of the modern irrigation system. The traveller Muhammad al-Idrisi described it in the 12th century as populous and strongly fortified.
After the fall of the Caliphate of Cordoba in 1031, Murcia passed successively under the rule of Almería, Toledo and Seville. From 1078 until 1091 it was under the forcible control of Seville, by Abbad II al-Mu'tadid. In 1172 it was taken by the Almohades, and from 1223 to 1243 it became the capital of an independent kingdom.
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