Kodutöö word variant 9 teema 19
vast Umayyad Caliphate's empire of Damascus that stretched from the Indus river in India up
to the South of France until its collapse in 750, a year in which the west of the empire gained
its independence under Abd-ar-Rahman I with the creation of the Emirate of Córdoba. After
almost two centuries, the Emirate turned into the Caliphate of Córdoba in 929 until its
dissolution a century later in 1031 to no less than 23 small kingdoms, called Taifa kingdoms.
The governors of the taifas proclaimed themselves each Emir of his province and established
diplomatic relations with the Christian Kingdoms of the north. Most of Portugal fell into the
hands of the Taifa of Badajoz of the Aftasid Dynasty, and after a short spell of an ephemera
taifa of Lisbon in 1022, fell within the dominion of the Taifa of Seville of the Abbadids poets.
The Taifa period ended with the conquest of the Almoravids that came from Morocco in 1086