Polity · 1139 CE – 1343 CE
Almohad Caliphate
الموَحدون · الدولة الموحدية
- Peak recorded area
- 948,698 km²
- 1206 CE
- Rulers on record
- 13
- from 1130 CE
Overview
The Almohad Caliphate or Almohad Empire was a North African empire ruled by a Berber Muslim dynasty in the 12th and 13th centuries. At its height, it controlled much of the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
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Territory
17 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
Rulers
13 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Abd al-Mu'minAlmohad caliph1130 CE – 1163 CE
- Abu Yaqub Yusuf IAlmohad caliph1163 CE – 1184 CE
- Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-MansurAlmohad caliph1184 CE – 1199 CE
- Muhammad al-NasirAlmohad caliph1199 CE – 1213 CE
- Yusuf II al-MustansirAlmohad caliph1213 CE – 1224 CE
- Abdallah al-AdilAlmohad caliph1224 CE – 1227 CE
- Abdul-Wahid I, Almohad CaliphAlmohad caliph1224 CE
- Yahya, Almohad CaliphAlmohad caliph1227 CE – 1229 CE
- Idris al-Ma'munAlmohad caliph1229 CE – 1232 CE
- Abd al-Wahid IIAlmohad caliph1232 CE – 1242 CE
- Abu al-Hasan as-Said al-MutadidAlmohad caliph1242 CE – 1248 CE
- Abu Hafs Umar al-MurtadaAlmohad caliph1248 CE – 1266 CE
- Idris IIAlmohad caliph1266 CE – 1269 CE
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- gold dinar, Almohad dinar
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
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Almohad Caliphate is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.