Empire929 CE – 1031 · 102 years
Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba
The exiled western branch of the Umayyads — al-Andalus at its height.
What it was
Founded by an Umayyad survivor of the Abbasid revolution, the Caliphate of Córdoba (929–1031) ruled most of the Iberian peninsula from a city of half a million people, with libraries, observatories, and a level of religious coexistence that made it a magnet for scholars across the Mediterranean.
Why it mattered
Christian, Muslim, and Jewish scholars in Córdoba and Toledo translated Arabic versions of Greek texts into Latin, beginning the chain of transmission that fueled the European 12th-century renaissance.
From Wikipedia
The Emirate of Córdoba, and from 929, the Caliphate of Córdoba, was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031. Its territory comprised most of the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Islands, and parts of North Africa, with its capital in Córdoba. From 756 it was ruled as an independent emirate until Abd al-Rahman III proclaimed himself as caliph in 929.
Wikipedia: Umayyad state of Córdoba·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1000:Caliphate of Córdoba
- SNAPSHOT1000
- MATCHEDCaliphate of Córdoba
- POLITY TYPEstate
Umayyad Cordoba ~1000 CE
Wars of this empire1
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Frankish-Moorish Wars711 CE–1000Significant · 100K dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 929 CE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba (929 CE – 1031). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/umayyad-cordoba · Sources & methodology