| The twelfth century was marked by instability, due to continued fighting between the Almoravids and Almohad control in the region. |
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| It probably dates right back to the establishment of the City of Marrakesh, which was founded in 1070 by the Almoravids. |
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| Between the 11th and 12th centuries, it was the Almoravids who founded their empire through their leader Youssef ben Tachfine in Marrakech. |
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| With the exile of al-Muʿtamid and his family to Morocco began the ascendency in Spain of the Almoravids. |
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| Finally, around the middle of the eleventh century, a confederation of tribes called the Almoravids conquered all of Morocco, as well as much of Spain. |
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| We heard stories about the battles between the Berbers and the Almoravids. |
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| The Almoravids bestowed their support on Avempace and other non religious scholars in spite of being very reverential to the Malikite jurists. |
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| The people of Granada, for their part, always bore in mind what had happened in the cases of the Almoravids and the Almohads, who, having arrived from Africa as auxiliary troops, became masters in Al-Andalus. |
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| The Almoravids, and the Almohads after them, also occupied parts of the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula. |
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| Alfonso's more aggressive policy towards the taifas worried the rulers of those kingdoms, who called on the African Almoravids for help. |
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| Surrounded by their enemies, taifa rulers sent a desperate appeal to the Berber chieftain Yusuf ibn Tashfin, leader of the Almoravids. |
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| In the subsequent centuries it remained under the rule of the Almoravids and Almohades as well as various Andalusian Taifas. |
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| After Yahya ibn Umar died, his brother Abu Bakr ibn Umar pursued the expansion of the Almoravids. |
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| When the Almoravids overthrew the kingdom of Seville that Abu Bakr's father served as a wazir, the family's property was confiscated. |
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| We have been like this since the Almoravids, if not the Idrissids before them. |
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| Until then, the Almoravids had been desert nomads, but the new capital marked their settling into a more urban way of life. |
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| The Almoravids, with the help of Toucouleur allies, used military force for conversion. |
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| Alfonso now allied himself with the Almoravids and devoted the rest of his life to a series of campaigns to check Almohad expansion in southern Spain. |
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| There does not appear to be evidence to suggest that the emerging Almoravid movement had one focus at Azougui, or that Azougui was in any way a 'capital' for the Almoravids, as suggested in the title of this nomination. |
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| A second version states that the treasure was sent from Orán by the Caliph Texufín Ben Alí, king of the Almoravids, who arrived on the coast, fleeing from an uprising in which he surely would have perished. |
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| Desert dwellers, military ascetics from the Sahara, the Almoravids shunned the lavish decoration that had characterized the late Umayyad architectural style and built on a practical rather than a monumental scale. |
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| In later ages, the city would fall under the control of the Hammudi Berbers, the Ziríes of Granada, the Almoravids, the Almohads and the Nazarites. |
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| A prestigious city founded around 1070 by the Almoravids, Marrakesh is an oasis with ochre colors, today legendary for its monuments, trades, crafts and gardens. |
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| Since the Almoravids who have made it the capital of their dynasty in the 11th century until today when it became the capital of luxury, refinement and beauty in every sense of pure, natural to the most sophisticated! |
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| It was founded in 1062 by the Almoravids, whose greatest legacy was to bring water to the city, harnessing spring waters through an ingenious system of wells and piping networks. |
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| Different Arab dynasties and Berber tribes disputed the control of the Maghreb for the next three centuries until the Berber rooted dynasty of the Almoravids controlled most of it until the middle of the 12th century. |
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| In addition to its historical interest, this stele includes all the characteristics of Marinid art, which borrowed its dense floral decoration from the Almoravids and its refined architectural forms from the Almohads. |
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| These two dynasties, the Almoravids and the Almohades, left very indelible impressions upon Spain, and ultimately, western European society and development. |
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| The Almoravids were a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of northwestern Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the eleventh century. |
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| In 1139, after an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique against the Almoravids, Afonso Henriques was proclaimed the first King of Portugal by his troops. |
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