- The
Zayyanid dynasty or
Ziyanids (Arabic: زيانيون, Ziyāniyyūn) or Abd al-Wadids (Arabic: بنو عبد الواد, Bānu ʿAbd āl-Wād) was a
Berber Zenata dynasty that...
- The
Kingdom of
Tlemcen or
Zayyanid Kingdom of
Tlemcen (Arabic: الزيانيون) was a
kingdom ruled by the
Berber Zayyanid dynasty in what is now the northwest...
-
Zayyanid architecture originated in the
Kingdom of
Tlemcen between the 13th and 16th
centuries in the
northwestern region of present-day Algeria. It is...
- "the
Medina of the West". The name
Tlemcen (Tilimsān) was
given by the
Zayyanid King
Yaghmurasen Ibn Zyan. One
possible etymology is that it
comes from...
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control further west. In 1242, he
captured Tlemcen from the
Zayyanids, but the
Zayyanid leader Yaghmurasan evaded him. The two
leaders eventually came...
- The
Zayyanid capture of Fez took
place in 1423 and was led by Abu
Malik Abdulwahid, the
ruler of Tlemcen. He
succeeded in
briefly installing his own client...
- The
Zayyanid-Almohad wars (1236–1248), also
known as the Tlemcen-Almohad wars, were a
series of
conflicts that
occurred between the
Zayyanid dynasty, rulers...
- Aghlabids, Fatimids, Zirids, Hammadids, Almoravids,
Almohads and the
Zayyanids. The
Christians left in
three waves:
after the
initial conquest, in the...
- Abd al-Qasem ben Abd al-Wad) was the
founder of the
Zayyanid dynasty.
Under his
reign the
Zayyanid Kingdom of
Tlemcen extended over present-day north-western...
- However, the
Marinid ruler changed his mind eventually,
spurring the
Zayyanid Yaghmurasen Ibn Zyan to
attack Marrakech. The
siege lasted from 1268 until...
