State · 1040 – 1147
Almoravid dynasty
A state of 1040 – 1147 — 107 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Taifa of Granada, Taifa of Alpuente and Taifa of Ceuta and 2 more. It was replaced by Almohad Caliphate, Taifa of Mértola and taifa (second period) and followed by Almohads. The atlas records 14 things within it — wars and battles 6 · people 8. Its line of rulers holds 7 people. Its own article says it was partitioned by two branches a northern one.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 107 years
- 1040 – 1147
- Rulers
- 7
- the Almoravid emir
- Most ground
- 1.93 million km²
- in 1111
- Within it
- 14
- recorded rows
1056 · first mapped · 1.40 million km²
1111 · at its largest · 1.93 million km²
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
- Lordship of Valencia · replaces · 1094 – 1102
- Taifa of Granada · replaces · 1013 – 1090
- Taifa of Alpuente · replaces · 1009 – 1106
- Taifa of Ceuta · replaces · 1061 – 1084
- taifa (first period) · replaces
After it
- Almohads · followed by · 1121 – 1269
- Almohad Caliphate · replaced by · 1121 – 1269
- Taifa of Mértola · replaced by · 1033 – 1151
- taifa (second period) · replaced by
How it ended, as its article says
Partitioned by two branches a northern one. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
Shortly after this, the empire was divided into two branches: a northern one centered in the Maghreb, led by Yusuf ibn Tashfin and his descendants, and a southern one based in the Sahara, led by Abu Bakr ibn Umar and his descendants.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of Almoravid emir.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yahya Ibn Ibrahim | 1042 – 1048 | 6 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni | 1048 – 1056 | 8 years | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Abu Bakr ibn Umar | 1056 – 1087 | 31 years | ending not on record | sibling |
| Ali ibn Yusuf | 1106 – 1143 | 37 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Tashfin ibn Ali | 1143 – 1145 | 2 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Ibrahim ibn Tashfin | 1146 – 1147 | 1 year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Ishaq ibn Ali | 1147 – 1147 | under a year | executedWikidata's manner of death |
7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1042 – 1147. Median reign 6 years. 1 of 6 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.
1.40 million km² in 1060, 421,200 km² in 1147; at its largest 1.93 million km² in 1120. 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.
1000 – 10995 rows · 2 wars and battles
- Muhammad al-Idrisi · writer · 1099 – 1165
- Ali ibn Yusuf · ruler · 1083 – 1143
- Abu Bakr ibn Umar · ruler · 1001 – 1088
- Battle of Tabfarilla · battle · 1056
- Battle of Consuegra · battle · 1097
1100 – 11999 rows · 4 wars and battles
- Averroes · scientist · 1126 – 1198
- Maimonides · scientist · 1138 – 1204
- Battle of Ourique · battle · 1139
- Tashfin ibn Ali · ruler · 1126 – 1145
- Ishaq ibn Ali · ruler · 1110 – 1147
- Ibrahim ibn Tashfin · ruler · 1131 – 1147
- Battle of Fraga · battle · 1134
- Conquest of Zaragoza · battle · 1118
and 1 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 stood107 years
stood longer than 48% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,926,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 91% 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 median6 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 22% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 19 causes the record names and 3 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.
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 107
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1029 – 1158, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1111, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q75613 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.