Empire1121 – 1269 · 148 years

Almohad Caliphate

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

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).

Wikipedia: Almohad Caliphate·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1200:Almohad Caliphate
SNAPSHOT1200
MATCHEDAlmohad Caliphate
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire7

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa1212
Major conflict · 100K dead
Almohad Conquest of the Maghreb1130–72
Major conflict
Norman Conquest of Mahdia1146–60
Significant
Marinid Conquest of Morocco1244–69
Significant
Battle of Alcacer do Sol1158
Regional
Battle of Alarcos1195
Regional
Battle of Alacer do Sol1217
Regional

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Cite as: Almohad Caliphate (1121 – 1269). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/almohad-caliphate · Sources & methodology