State · 1121 – 1269

Almohad Caliphate

A state of 1121 – 1269 — 148 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Fatimid Caliphate, Almoravid dynasty and Hammadid dynasty and 1 more. It was replaced by Kingdom of Portugal, Marinid dynasty and Kingdom of Seville and 1 more and followed by Kingdom of Aragon, Kingdom of Castile and Kingdom of León and 7 more. The atlas records 20 things within it — wars and battles 6 · people 14. Its line of rulers holds 13 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 148 years; 1121 – 1269
Rulers: 13; the Almohad caliph
Most ground: 949,200 km²; in 1206
Within it: 20; recorded rows

Map: Almohad Caliphate in 1206, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Almohad Caliphate in 1206, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 949,200 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Almohad Caliphate in 1139, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Almohad Caliphate in 1206, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Fatimid Caliphate · replaces · 909 – 1171
Taifa of Mértola · replaces · 1033 – 1151
Hammadid dynasty · replaces · 1014 – 1152
Almoravid dynasty · replaces · 1040 – 1147

After it

Kingdom of León · followed by · 910 – 1833
Kingdom of Castile · followed by · 1065 – 1715
Kingdom of Córdoba · replaced by · 1236 – 1833
Kingdom of Seville · replaced by · 1248 – 1833
Kingdom of Aragon · followed by · 1035 – 1707
Kingdom of Portugal · replaced by · 1139 – 1910
Marinid dynasty · replaced by · 1215 – 1465
Taifa of Arjona · followed by
Emirate of Granada · followed by · 1238 – 1492
Taifa of Niebla · followed by · 1023 – 1053
Taifa of Baeza · followed by · 1224 – 1226
Zayyanid dynasty · followed by · 1236 – 1556
Hafsid dynasty · followed by · 1229 – 1574
Taifa of Orihuela · followed by · 1239 – 1249

Rulers

The line of Almohad caliph.

died in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Abd al-Mu'min	1147 – 1163	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abu Yaqub Yusuf	1163 – 1184	21 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Yaqub al-Mansur	1184 – 1199	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Muhammad al-Nasir	1199 – 1213	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Yusuf II, Almohad caliph	1213 – 1224	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Abd al-Wahid I	1224 – 1224	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abdallah al-Adil	1224 – 1227	3 years	died by accidentWikidata's manner of death	nephew or niece
Yahya al-Mu'tasim	1227 – 1229	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Idris al-Ma'mun	1229 – 1232	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abd al-Wahid II	1232 – 1242	10 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Abu al-Hasan as-Said al-Mutadid	1242 – 1248	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu Hafs Umar al-Murtada	1248 – 1266	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Idris II	1266 – 1269	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling

13 rulers, 13 with terms dated as terms, covering 1147 – 1269. Median reign 10 years. 0 of 12 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

265,100 km² in 1141, 389,000 km² in 1269; at its largest 949,200 km² in 1211. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1100 – 119910 rows · 1 wars and battles

Ibn Arabi · philosopher · 1165 – 1240
Abd al-Mu'min · ruler · 1100 – 1163
Yaqub al-Mansur · ruler · 1160 – 1199
Abu Yaqub Yusuf · ruler · 1139 – 1184
Muhammad al-Nasir · ruler · 1181 – 1213
Abdallah al-Adil · ruler · 1180 – 1227
Abd al-Wahid I · ruler · 1153 – 1224
Idris al-Ma'mun · ruler · 1186 – 1232

and 2 more in the atlas.

1200 – 129910 rows · 5 wars and battles

Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa · battle · 1212
Yusuf II, Almohad caliph · ruler · 1200 – 1223
Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi · scientist · 1213 – 1286
Yahya al-Mu'tasim · ruler · 1200 – 1236
Abu al-Hasan as-Said al-Mutadid · ruler · 1210 – 1248
Abd al-Wahid II · ruler · 1210 – 1242
Siege of Seville · battle · 1247 – 1248
Conquest of Majorca · battle · 1228 – 1231

and 2 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood148 years
stood longer than 55% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held949,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 84% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median10 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 35% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record13
has more rulers on record than 85% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 5 causes the record names and 13 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 1 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 148

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1106 – 1284, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1206, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q199688 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.