Ibiza
Moors, as well as much of the Iberian peninsula. Under Islamic rule, Ibiza came in close contact with the city of Dénia (the
closest port in the nearby Iberian peninsula, located in the Valencian Community) as the two areas were administered jointly by
the same taifa. Moreover, the tribes who lived in Ibiza and Denia during the period 10601085 were Moorish tribes named Bno
Alaglab & BanoMujahed.
The island was reclaimed for Christendom by Aragonese King James I of Aragon in 1235. Since then, the island has had its own
selfgovernment in several forms but in 1715 King Philip V of Spain abolished the local government's autonomy. The arrival of
democracy in the late 1970s led to the Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands. Today the island is part of the Balearic
Autonomous Community, along with Majorca, Minorca and Formentera.
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