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Tunisia
Temporarily a stronghold of the
Vandals
in the fifth and sixth centuries,
Eastern Roman
North Africa was captured by the Islamic
Empire in 698. |
698 - 800 |
Tunisia is conquered from
Byzantium by the
Islamic
Empire. |
800 |
The Islamic
Aghlabids become independent from Arabia. |
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Aghlabid Dynasty (Tunisia)
AD 800 - 909
The Aghlabids were originally the faithful
Abbasid governors of Tunisia
and (they claimed) Algeria, and
they only gradually drifted out of central
supervision and control. Their greatest independent project was the conquest of
Sicily, which they occupied from 827-878,
and which remained part of the Islamic
Empire until the arrival of the
Normans. |
800 - 812 |
Ibrahim I |
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800 - 812 |
Any claim the Aghlabids hold over
Algeria ends with Ibrahim's death. |
812 - 817 |
Adbullah I |
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817 - 838 |
Ziyadat Allah I |
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827 |
The Aghlabids invade
Sicily. |
838 - 841 |
al-Aghlab |
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841 - 856 |
Muhammad I |
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856 - 863 |
Ahmad |
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863 |
Ziyadat Allah II |
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863 - 875 |
Muhammad II |
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875 - 902 |
Ibrahim II |
|
878 |
Syracuse
in
Sicily is
captured. |
902 - 903 |
Abdullah II |
|
903 - 909 |
Ziyadat Allah III |
|
909 |
The Aghlabids are conquered by the
Fatimids, who quickly conquer
Morocco,
Syria,
Algeria, and Arabia. |
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Fatamid Dynasty
AD 909 - 1171
The Fatamids quickly conquered Morocco
in 926. |
909 - 934 |
al Mahdi |
|
909 - 934 |
The Shiite (Sevener)
Caliphate is established in North Africa to rival the Orthodox
Abbasid Caliphate. |
934 - 946 |
al Qaim |
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946 - 952 |
al Mansur |
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952 - 975 |
al Muizz |
|
969 |
Egypt is occupied. The Caliphate
is removed to new city, alQahirah
(Cairo). |
975 - 996 |
al Aziz |
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996 - 1021 |
al Hakim |
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1021 - 1035 |
az Zahir |
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1035 - 1094 |
al Mustansir |
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1094 - 1101 |
al Mustali |
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1101 - 1130 |
al Amir |
|
1130 - 1149 |
al Hafiz. |
|
1149 |
The collateral line
assumes the throne and is no longer considered to be Shiite Imams. The
Almohad Dynasty of Morocco occupies Tunisia. |
1149 - 1154 |
az Zafir |
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1154 - 1160 |
al Faiz |
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1160 - 1171 |
al Ādid |
Died a natural death. |
1171 |
Control of Egypt passes to Yusuf
ibn Ayyub (Saladdin), founder of the Ayyubid Dynasty. |
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Hafsid Dynasty
AD 1229 - 1574
After the
split of the Hafsids from the
Almohads under Abu Zakariya,
he organised the administration in Ifriqiya (the Roman province of
Africa in modern Maghreb; today's Tunisia, eastern
Algeria and western
Libya), and built up Tunis as the economic and cultural centre of the empire. |
1229 - 1249 |
Abu Zakariya |
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1249 - 1277 |
Muhammad I al-Mustansir |
Took the
title of caliph. |
1270 |
The Seventh Crusade under
St Louis IX of
France gets no further than
Tunisia. |
1277 - 1279 |
Yahya II al-Watiq |
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1279 - 1283 |
Ibrahim I |
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1283 - 1284 |
Ibn
Abi Umara |
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1284 - 1295 |
Abu Hafs Umar
I |
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1318 - 1346 |
Abu Bakr II |
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1347 - 1350 |
The Berber Merinids
of Morocco destroy the Hafsids, but their rule in Tunisia is short-lived. |
1350 - 1369 |
Ishaq II |
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1370 - 1394 |
Abu al-Abbas
Ahmad II |
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1394 - 1434 |
Abd
al-Aziz II |
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1435 - 1488 |
Uthman |
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1574 |
During the course of the century the Hafsids increasingly become caught up
in the power struggle between
Spain and the
corsairs, supported by the Ottoman Empire.
The latter conquers Tunis in 1574 and topples the Hafsids, who, at times,
had accepted Spanish sovereignty over them. |
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1883 |
Tunisia
is annexed by republican
France. |
1965 |
Tunisia gains
peaceful independence from
France. |
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