Taifa of Ronda

The Taifa of Ronda was a small Berber kingdom in al-Andalus, centered on the mountain town of Ronda in what is now southern Spain. It existed from 1039 to 1065 and was ruled by the Banu Ifran, a Berber family from North Africa. The taifa's first ruler, Abu Nour, held power until about 1053, when Badis ibn Hilal succeeded him. After a brief restoration of Abu Nur Hilal in 1057, Abu Nars Fatuh took the throne and ruled until 1065. In that year Ronda was conquered by the Taifa of Seville under Abbad II al-Mu'tadid, and it remained under Sevillian control until the Almoravid conquest of 1091. The taifa was one of the many small states that emerged in Muslim Spain after the collapse of the Caliphate of Córdoba. Its mountain setting gave it a defensible position, but it could not withstand the expansion of its larger neighbour Seville.