Empire1040 – 1147 · 107 years

Almoravid Empire

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 Almoravid dynasty was a Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire that stretched over the western Maghreb and al-Andalus, starting in the 1050s and lasting until its fall to the Almohads in 1147.

Wikipedia: Almoravid dynasty·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
SNAPSHOT1100
MATCHEDAlmoravid dynasty
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire10

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

Almoravid Conquest of Ghana1076–77
Major conflict
Battle of Sagrajas1086
Significant · 30K dead
Battle of Audaghost1054
Regional
Battle of Kumbi1076
Regional
Battle of Almodovar del Rio1091
Regional
Battle of Cuarte1094
Regional
Battle of Bairen1097
Regional
Battle of Ucles1108
Regional
Battle of Cutanda1120
Regional
Battle of Santarem1147
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1040 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Almoravid Empire (1040 – 1147). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/almoravid-empire · Sources & methodology