Taifa of Seville
| Taifa Kingdom of Seville | ||||||||||
| طائفة إشبيليّة Reino Taifa de Sevilla | ||||||||||
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 The Kingdom of Seville at its greatest extent in green, c. 1080. (1078) year of annexation.
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| Capital | Seville | |||||||||
| Languages | Arabic, Berber, Mozarabic , Hebrew | |||||||||
| Religion | Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism | |||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Downfall of Caliphate of Córdoba | 1023 | ||||||||
| • | Death of last king Al-Mu'tamid and defeat after Almoravid troops | 1091 | ||||||||
| Currency | Dirham and Dinar | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Spain Portugal Gibraltar
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The Taifa of Seville (Arabic: طائفة إشبيليّة, Ta'ifat-u Ishbiliyyah) was an Arab kingdom which belonged to the Abbadid family. It originated in 1023 and lasted until 1091, in what is today southern Spain and Portugal.
The first king of Seville was Abu al-Qasim (1023–1042). He was qadi of Seville and declared independence of the province of Seville from Caliphate of Córdoba after its downfall in 1031, becoming king of Seville as Abbad I. The second king was his son Abbad II al-Mu'tadid (1042–1069), the last ruler being Muhammad al-Mu'tamid (1069–1091).
The kingdom started as a small, weakly defended territory comprising parts of current Spanish provinces of Seville, Huelva and Cadiz, but quickly emerged as the most powerful taifa kingdom of the time, after its rulers began pursuing a policy of expansion. After several military campaigns, the kingdom achieved dominance over all of Western Andalusia and Murcia, gradually absorbing the taifas of Badajoz, Algeciras, Granada and Málaga, Mértola (1044), Huelva (1051), Algarve (1051), Niebla (1053) Algeciras (1055), Silves (1063), Ronda (1065), Morón (1066), Carmona (1067), Arcos (1069) and even Córdoba itself (1070, lost in 1075 to Toledo but regained in 1077). The kingdom reached its largest territorial extent in 1078 with the capture of Murcia in 1078 by poet Abu Bakr ibn Ammar.
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