Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Taifa of Córdoba
1031–1091
Ṭā'ifa Qurṭuba. Capital: Córdoba. After the caliphate's abolition, the Córdoban aristocracy established a republican/oligarchic council under the Andalusian Arab Banu Jahwar: Abu Hazm Jahwar ibn Muhammad (1031–1043), Muhammad al-Rashid (1043–1063), and Abd al-Malik al-Mansur (1063–1070).
- Existed
- 1031–1091
- Shown on the map
- 1147–1151, 1236–1249 (2 periods)
- Peak area
- 15k km²
- Region
- Europe
Names
Ṭā'ifa Qurṭuba. Capital: Córdoba. After the caliphate's abolition, the Córdoban aristocracy established a republican/oligarchic council under the Andalusian Arab Banu Jahwar: Abu Hazm Jahwar ibn Muhammad (1031–1043), Muhammad al-Rashid (1043–1063), and Abd al-Malik al-Mansur (1063–1070). Seville's al-Mu'tamid seized Córdoba in 1070/71. It was a symbolically weighty but militarily weak state, its former glory gone.
Common questions
- What was the Taifa of Córdoba?
- Ṭā'ifa Qurṭuba. Capital: Córdoba. After the caliphate's abolition, the Córdoban aristocracy established a republican/oligarchic council under the Andalusian Arab Banu Jahwar: Abu Hazm Jahwar ibn Muhammad (1031–1043), Muhammad al-Rashid (1043–1063), and Abd al-Malik al-Mansur (1063–1070).
- When did the Taifa of Córdoba exist?
- The Taifa of Córdoba existed 1031–1091. On this map it is drawn 1147–1151, 1236–1249.
- How large was the Taifa of Córdoba?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Taifa of Córdoba covered about 15,000 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 Córdoba en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taifa_of_C%C3%B3rdoba
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