Hammadid dynasty
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The Hammadid dynasty (Arabic: الحماديون, romanized: Al-Hāmmādiyūn, lit. 'children of Hammad'), also known as the Hammadid Emirate or the Kingdom of Bejaia,[4]: 350 was a medieval Islamic kingdom[3]: 240 located in the central Maghreb,[5] encompassing present-day Algeria. It was established at the beginning of the 11th century when Hammad ibn Buluggin declared himself emir,[6] thus splitting the Zirid domains into two separate dynasties. Under the reign of Emir Al Nasir, the emirate briefly became the most important state in the Maghreb,[7] and reached its greatest territorial extent, stretching from Tlemcen in the west to Tunis in the east,[3]: 238 [4]: 362 [7] and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the desert oasis of Ouargla and Oued Righ in the south.[3]: 238 [8] While they briefly controlled the principality of Fez in the west and cities like Sfax, Kairouan, Laribus, and Tripoli to the east.[3]: 238 [9][10][7]
Hammadid dynasty | |||||||||||||
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1014–1152 | |||||||||||||
Status | Nominal vassal of the Abbasid or Fatimid Caliphate[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||||
Capital | |||||||||||||
Official languages | Arabic[1][2] | ||||||||||||
Common languages | Maghrebi Arabic Berber languages | ||||||||||||
Religion | |||||||||||||
Government | Hereditary monarchy | ||||||||||||
Emir | |||||||||||||
• c. 1007-1028 | Hammad (first) | ||||||||||||
• c. 1062-1088 | Al Nasir ibn Alnas | ||||||||||||
• c. 1121-1152 | Yahya ibn Abd al-Aziz (last) | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
1014 | |||||||||||||
• Conquered by the Almohads | 1152 | ||||||||||||
Currency | Dinar (gold coin) [3]: 240 | ||||||||||||
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At first, Hammad built a fortified city that would serve as the capital for his newly declared kingdom.[5]: 40 [3]: 234 [6]: 20 [11]Later, upon the arrival of the Arabic Banu Hilal tribes, the capital would be replaced by another newly built city by Emir Al Nasir ibn Alnas called Al-Nāsiriyyah (from Arabic: الناصرية) and later renamed to Bejaia,[12]: 100 [7]: 45 [13][14] it would serve as the official capital of the Emirate by 1090 during the rule of Al-Mansur.[7]: 46 Both cities would grow to become one of the largest and most prosperous centers of the Maghreb,[14] with Bejaia housing more than 100,000 inhabitants.[13]: 59 [14][11] The Hammadids would subsequently clash with the Almoravids in the west and their cousins the Zirids in the east.[15][8]: 54 [6]: 80 The latter weakened with the rise of the prominent Normans in Sicily,[7]: 47 [11][16] who also confronted the Hammadids for the domination of Ifriqiya (modern-day Tunisia).[12]: 188 [6]: 98 [3]: 260 However, the Hammadids would face another challenge on their western borders with the growing force of the Almohad Caliphate,[7]: 47 and their emirate would finally be annexed by the Almohads in 1152 after a brief clash with them.[7]: 47 [11][8]: 58