Taifa of Morón

The Taifa of Morón was a medieval Berber taifa kingdom that existed from around 1010 to 1066, centred at Morón de la Frontera, the hill town south of Seville — one of the small party kingdoms shown on the map. It was ruled by the Dammarid dynasty: Abu Tuziri al-Dammari held the town until 1013/4, and the emirate passed to Nuh, who reigned until 1041/2, then to Muhammad, and finally to Manad, whose death in 1066 closed the dynasty's rule. Set on its fortified rock amid the olive country of the lower Guadalquivir, the little taifa survived the struggles of its neighbours until, from 1066, it came under the forcible control of Seville, ruled by Abbad II al-Mu'tadid, who extinguished the small kingdoms around his capital one by one; the taifa's separate existence thus ended with the city's absorption into the Sevillan state, itself soon to fall to the Almoravids.