Taifa of Murcia

State · 1015–1249 CE · at its largest around 1152 CE

Muslim kingdom in south-eastern Iberia that re-emerged several times; under Ibn Mardanish it resisted the Almohads before the region came under Castile in the thirteenth century.

On its lands while it lasted

Murcia (c. 1015 CE): Capital of Taifa of Murcia (1015–1249).
Albarracín (c. 1015 CE): Capital of Taifa of Albarracín (1015–1104).
El Cid (c. 1043 CE – 1099 CE): Castilian knight Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, who fought for Christian and Muslim rulers and conquered Valencia in 1094; hero of the Cantar de mio Cid.