Taifa
The taifas were the independent Muslim principalities and kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, referred to by Muslims as al-Andalus, that emerged from the decline and fall of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba between 1009 and 1031.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 6,990 residents
- Description: emirates of Al-Andalus
- Also known as: “taifa”
Taifa
- Categories: type of organization, realm, Emirate, sovereign state, rump state, historical country, and Islamic state
- Location: Taza Province, Fez-Meknes, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Taifa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الطوائف”
- Arabic: “امسيلة”
- Arabic: “حكام الطوائف”
- Arabic: “طوائف الأندلس”
- Arabic: “عصر الطوائف”
- Arabic: “ملوك الطوائف”
- Aragonese: “taifa”
- Armenian: “Թայֆա”
- Armenian: “Տաիֆա”
- Armenian: “Տայֆա”
- Asturian: “reinu de taifa”
- Asturian: “reinu de taifes”
- Asturian: “taifa”
- Asturian: “Taifa”
- Asturian: “taifes”
- Basque: “Taifa”
- Bengali: “তাইফা”
- Breton: “Taifa”
- Bulgarian: “Таифа”
- Bulgarian: “Тайфа”
- Catalan: “Regnes de Taifa”
- Catalan: “Regnes de Taifes”
- Catalan: “Regnes Taifa”
- Catalan: “taifa”
- Catalan: “Taifa”
- Catalan: “Taifes”
- Chinese: “泰法”
- Czech: “Taifas”
- Czech: “Taifská království”
- Danish: “Taifa”
- Dutch: “taifa”
- Dutch: “Taifa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ملوك الطوائف”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ملوك الطوايف”
- Esperanto: “Tajfo”
- Extremaduran: “Taifa”
- Finnish: “taifa”
- Finnish: “Taifa”
- French: “Epoque des taifas”
- French: “Époque des taifas”
- French: “Reyes de taifas”
- French: “Taifa (Commune Rurale)”
- French: “Taifa (CR)”
- French: “Taifa”
- French: “taïfa”
- French: “Taïfa”
- Galician: “taifa”
- Galician: “Taifa”
- Georgian: “ტაიფა”
- German: “Reyes de taifas”
- German: “Taifa-Königreich”
- German: “Taifa-Königreiche”
- German: “Taifa-Reiche”
- German: “Taifas”
- Greek: “Ταϊφά”
- Hebrew: “טאיפה”
- Hungarian: “Táifa”
- Indonesian: “Muluk ath-Thawaif”
- Indonesian: “Negara taifa”
- Indonesian: “Taifa”
- Italian: “Regni di Taifa”
- Italian: “Ta’ifa”
- Italian: “taifa”
- Italian: “Taifa”
- Japanese: “ターイファ”
- Japanese: “タイファ”
- Kazakh: “Тайфа”
- Korean: “타이파”
- Latin: “Taifa”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Taifa”
- Lithuanian: “taifa”
- Lithuanian: “Taifa”
- Lithuanian: “Taifai”
- Lithuanian: “Taifos”
- Macedonian: “Таифа”
- Macedonian: “таифски”
- Malay: “Taifa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taifa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taifa”
- Norwegian: “Taifa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Taifa”
- Persian: “طوایف (اندلس)”
- Persian: “طوایف”
- Polish: “Taifa”
- Portuguese: “Reino taifa”
- Portuguese: “Reinos de Taifas”
- Portuguese: “Reinos taifas”
- Portuguese: “Taifa”
- Portuguese: “Taifas”
- Russian: “тайфа”
- Russian: “Тайфа”
- Serbian: “таифа”
- Serbian: “Таифа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Taifa”
- Slovenian: “taifa”
- Slovenian: “Taifa”
- Spanish: “Emirato”
- Spanish: “Reino de Taifa”
- Spanish: “Reinos de Taifas”
- Spanish: “Tā’ifa”
- Spanish: “taifa”
- Spanish: “Taifa”
- Spanish: “Taifas”
- Swedish: “Taifa”
- Tagalog: “Taifa”
- Turkish: “Mülûkü’t-Tavâif”
- Turkish: “Tavâif-i Mülûk”
- Ukrainian: “тайфа”
- Ukrainian: “Тайфа”
- Urdu: “طائفہ”
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