Taifa of Toledo
Taifa of Toledo | |||||||||
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| 1018 (de facto)–1085 | |||||||||
Taifa Kingdom of Toledo, c. 1037. | |||||||||
| Capital | Toledo | ||||||||
| Common languages | Arabic | ||||||||
| Religion | Islam, Christianity (Mozarabic Rite), Judaism | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Emir | |||||||||
• c. 1036–1043 | Ismail al-Zahir | ||||||||
• 1043–1075 | Yahya I al-Ma'mun | ||||||||
• 1075–1085 | Yahya al-Qadir | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Established | 1018 (de facto) | ||||||||
• incorporated to the taifa of Badajoz | 1080–1081 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1085 | ||||||||
| Currency | Dirham and Dinar | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Spain | ||||||||
The Taifa of Toledo (Arabic: طائفة طليطلة, romanized: ṭa'ifat ṭulayṭula) was an Islamic polity (taifa) located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula in the High Middle Ages. It was ruled by the Dhulnunids, a Hawwara Berber clan. It emerged after 1018 upon the fracturing of the Caliphate of Córdoba, when the Dhulnunids, already strong in the lands of Santaver, Cuenca, Huete and Uclés, seized control over the city of Toledo, the capital of the Middle March of Al-Andalus. Upon later territorial conquest, the taifa also expanded to the land of Calatrava. It lasted until the Christian conquest of Toledo in 1085.