The Taifa of Valencia () was a medieval

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taifa The ''taifas'' (singular ''taifa'', from ar, طائفة ''ṭā'ifa'', plural طوائف ''ṭawā'if'', a party, band or faction) were the independent Muslim principalities and kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal and Spain), re ...

kingdom which existed, in and around

Valencia, Spain Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also ...

during four distinct periods: from 1010 to 1065, from 1075 to 1099, from 1145 to 1147 and last from 1229 to 1238 when it was finally conquered by the

Aragon Aragon ( , ; Spanish and an, Aragón ; ca, Aragó ) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces (from north to sou ...

. From 1094 to 1099 the kingdom was also subject to the rule of legendary military leader

El Cid Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and warlord in medieval Spain. Fighting with both Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific ''al-sīd'', which would evolve into El ...

List of Rulers

Saqlabi Saqaliba ( ar, صقالبة, ṣaqāliba, singular ar, صقلبي, ṣaqlabī) is a term used in medieval Arabic sources to refer to Slavs and other peoples of Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe, or in a broad sense to European slaves. The t ...
non-dynastic rulers

Mubarak and Muzaffar Mubārak al-Saqlabi and Muẓaffar al-Saqlabi were jointly the first emirs of the Taifa of Valencia between 1010 and 1018. They were brothers and Saqaliba, originally Slavic children that were captured, castrated, sold as slaves in Spain, and edu ...

: 1010/1–1017 *

Labib al-Fata al-Saqlabi Labib al-Fata al-Saqlabi () (or Labib of Tortosa) was the founder and first ruler of the Taifa of Tortosa from around to . He was a Saqaliba, usually Slavic children that were captured, castrated, sold as slaves in Spain, and educated in the Isl ...

(Tortosa c. 1009–bfr. 1039/40): 1017–1019, d. bfr. 1039 *

Mujāhid al-ʿĀmirī Abu ʾl-Jaysh Mujāhid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿĀmirī, surnamed ''al-Muwaffaḳ'' (died AD 1044/5 AH_436.html"_;"title="Anno_Hegirae.html"_;"title="small>Anno_Hegirae">AH_436">Anno_Hegirae.html"_;"title="small>Anno_Hegirae">AH_436,_was_the_Ta ...

(in Denia 1010/2–1045): 1017–1021, d. 1045, co-ruler in the beginning with Labib

Amirid dynasty

Abd al-Aziz al-Mansur Abd-al-Aziz al-Mansur was the king of the Taifa of Valencia between 1021 and 1061. He was the son of Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo. He was two years old at the time of his father's violent death and was taken for safekeeping to Zaragoza, where he grew ...

: 1021–1061 * Abd al-Malik ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Muẓaffar: 1061–1065 ** To

Al-Mamun Abu al-Abbas Abdallah ibn Harun al-Rashid ( ar, أبو العباس عبد الله بن هارون الرشيد, Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn ar-Rashīd; 14 September 786 – 9 August 833), better known by his regnal name Al-Ma'mu ...

of Toledo: 1065–1075 * : 1075–1085 * : 1085–1086

Dhunnunid dynasty

Yahya al-Qadir Yahya ibn Ismail ibn Yahya, known by the regnal name al-Qadir bi-llah (died 28 October 1092) was the Dhulnunid ruler of the Taifa of Toledo in Spain between 1075 until the fall of Toledo 1085 and of the Taifa of Valencia from 1086 until his deat ...

(in Toledo 1075–1085): 1086–1092

Yahhafid dynasty

Ibn Jahhaf Abu Ahmad Jaafar bin Abdullah bin Jahhaff al-Ma’afari or Ibn Yahhaf (died 1094) was a judge and was the last ruler of the Taifa of Valencia before it fell to El Cid in 1094. Biography Ibn Jahhaff, previously a judge in the city of Valencia, bec ...

: 1092–1094

Dynasty of El Cid

: 1094–1099 *

Jimena Díaz Doña Jimena Díaz (also spelled Ximena) (before July 1046–c.1116) was the wife of El Cid, whom she married between July 1074 and 12 May 1076, and her husband's successor as ruler of Valencia from 1099 to 1102. The spelling ''Jimena'' is a ...

: 1099–1102 **To Castile: 1099–1102 **To

Almoravids The Almoravid dynasty ( ar, المرابطون, translit=Al-Murābiṭūn, lit=those from the ribats) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire in the 11th century that ...

: 1102–1145

'Abd al-'Aziz dynasty

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: 1145

'Jyaddid dynasty

* Abu Muhammad: 1145–1146, d. 1147

Huddid dynasty

* Abu Dja'far Ahmad "Zafadola": 1146

'Jyaddid dynasty (restored)

* Abu Muhammad (restored): 1146–1147 **To

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: 1147–1172 **To

Almohads The Almohad Caliphate (; ar, خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or or from ar, ٱلْمُوَحِّدُونَ, translit=al-Muwaḥḥidūn, lit=those who profess the unity of God) was a North African Berber Muslim empire fo ...

: 1172–1229

Mardanis dynasty

* Zayyan (in Onda 1228–1229, Murcia 1239–1241): 1229–1238, d. 1241 **To

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thereafter

References

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