Taifa de Mértola

The Taifa of Mértola was a small Muslim emirate that arose in Al-Andalus around 1033, following the disintegration of the Caliphate of Cordoba and which lasted until 1044, when it was conquered by Al-Mutadid of Seville. >

The Taifa of Mértola extended to both sides of the river Guadiana, in the eastern part of the present Portuguese district of Beja, around the city of Mārtulah, present Mértola. Segunda national Statue of Ibn Qasi, Lord of Mértola, next to the castle of the city.

During the second taifa period, after the fall of the Almoravid Empire, an independent taifa appeared again in Mértola, which lasted from 1144 to 1151, with a brief interim period in which it was annexed to the Taifa of Badajoz. > Bibliography

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