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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
Map: Almoravid dynasty in 1111, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Almoravid dynasty in 1111, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.93 million 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.
Almoravid dynasty in 1056, first mapped

1056 · first mapped · 1.40 million km²

Almoravid dynasty in 1111, at its largest

1111 · at its largest · 1.93 million km²

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Lordship of Valencia: 1094 – 1102Taifa of Granada: 1013 – 1090Taifa of Alpuente: 1009 – 1106Almohads: 1121 – 1269Almohad Caliphate: 1121 – 1269Taifa of Mértola: 1033 – 1151Almoravid dynasty: 1040 – 1147

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

After it

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.

Yahya Ibn Ibrahim · 1042 – 1048 · died in office, manner not recordedYahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni · 1048 – 1056 · killed, the article saysAbu Bakr ibn Umar · 1056 – 1087 · no death date to read the end againstAli ibn Yusuf · 1106 – 1143 · died in office, manner not recordedTashfin ibn Ali · 1143 – 1145 · the term ends after the recorded deathIbrahim ibn Tashfin · 1146 – 1147 · died in office, manner not recordedIshaq ibn Ali · 1147 – 1147 · executed104010601080110011201140
killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Yahya Ibn Ibrahim1042 – 10486 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni1048 – 10568 yearskilled, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Abu Bakr ibn Umar1056 – 108731 yearsending not on recordsibling
Ali ibn Yusuf1106 – 114337 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Tashfin ibn Ali1143 – 11452 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alonechild
Ibrahim ibn Tashfin1146 – 11471 yeardied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Ishaq ibn Ali1147 – 1147under a yearexecutedWikidata'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.

10601080110011201140

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 – 1099: 5 recorded — 2 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other10001100 – 1199: 9 recorded — 4 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 5 other1100

1000 – 10995 rows · 2 wars and battles

1100 – 11999 rows · 4 wars and battles

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.

taifa (first period) · Linked · 1009 – 1085taifa (first period)Taifa of Alpuente · Linked · 1009 – 1106Taifa of AlpuenteTaifa of Granada · Linked · 1013 – 1090Taifa of GranadaAfrica · In the article · 146 BCE · “The Almoravid period also contributed significantly to the Islamization of the Sahara region and to the urbanization of the western Maghreb, while cultural de…”AfricaYusuf ibn Tashfin · Coincidence · 1009 – 1106Yusuf ibn TashfinAlmoravid dynasty · 1040 – 1147Almoravid dynastyAlmohad Caliphate · Linked · 1121 – 1269Almohad CaliphateAlmohads · Linked · 1121 – 1269AlmohadsTaifa of Mértola · Linked · 1033 – 1151Taifa of Mértola15001000
in the articlelinkedcoincidence

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

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.