Taifa of Niebla

The Taifa of Niebla was an Arab taifa kingdom in al-Andalus, centered on the town of Niebla in what is now the province of Huelva. It existed in three distinct periods. The first began in 1023 under the Yahsubid dynasty, whose rulers Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad, Muhammad al-Yahsubi Izz ad-Dawla and Abu Nars Fath governed until 1053, when Niebla was taken by the Taifa of Seville. The region remained under Seville and then the Almoravids until about 1145, when a second taifa arose under the Bitruyid dynasty. That state lasted until 1150, when it was absorbed by the Almohads. A third period followed from 1234, when the Mahfuzid ruler Su'ayb established himself at Niebla; it ended in 1262 when the town was finally conquered and absorbed by the Crown of Castile. Niebla was a small kingdom, but its long sequence of independent and semi-independent rulers made it one of the more persistent taifa centres of south-western al-Andalus.