Conventional Long Name: | Taifa of Carmona |
Common Name: | Taifa of Carmona |
Era: | Middle Ages |
Government Type: | Monarchy |
Year Start: | 1013 |
Year End: | 1150 |
Event Start: | Downfall of Caliphate of Córdoba |
Event1: | To Seville/Almoravid dynasty |
Date Event1: | 1066–1091 / 1091–1143 |
Event End: | Conquered by the Almohad Caliphate |
P1: | Caliphate_of_Cordoba |
S1: | Taifa of Seville |
S2: | Almohad Caliphate |
Flag S2: | Flag of Morocco (1147-1269).svg |
Image Map Caption: | Taifa Kingdom of Carmona, c. 1037 |
Capital: | Carmona, now in Seville, Andalusia, Spain |
Common Languages: | Arabic, Mozarabic, Hebrew |
Religion: | Islam, Christianity (Roman Catholicism), Judaism |
Currency: | Dirham and Dinar |
The Taifa of Carmona was a medieval Berber taifa kingdom. It existed for two distinct periods: first from 1013 to 1066 when it was conquered by the Taifa of Seville, and secondly from around 1143 to 1150 when it was finally conquered by the Almohad Caliphate. The taifa was established and ruled by the Zenata Berber Birzalid dynasty.
The Banu Birzal was a Zenata Berber tribe settled in the Zab region and belonging to the confederations of the central Maghreb (Maghreb al-Awsat).[1] [2]
1052/3–1066/7
fl. mid-12th century