Atalaya Castle, also known as Castillo de la Atalaya or Castillo de Villena, is a medieval fortress built by the Almohad Empire at the end of the 12th century. The castle has a rich (and bloody) ...

Planet Earth is home to plenty of historic cities where empires have risen and fallen and from which new cultures have ...

Naturally, a port with that much influence needed protection from ships trying to enter the claimed territory of the Almohad Dynasty (a 12th-century Muslim Caliphate that once ruled northern ...

La Giralda – the adjacent tower and, until recently, the tallest landmark in Seville – is one of the few remains of the site's original mosque, built by the 12th-century Berber-Muslim Almohad ...

The village of Tinmel, once a center of the Almohad Caliphate, is rebuilding after the disaster reduced the historic mosque to rubble. The 2023 earthquake toppled the mosque’s minaret ...

After their loss at Las Navas de Tolosa, the Almohad Empire disintegrated into a series of brief dynasties known as the Taifas, allowing the Christian monarchs to gain control of most of southern ...

Initially Abd al-Mu'min had ignored the tribesmen raiding the districts of Marrakesh. [1] [2] However, when the raiding increased under al-Mâssî, al-Mu'min led an army against the rebel tribesmen. [6] ...

While Sancho and the 500 crusaders were marching south, a further 63 English ships arrived in Lisbon. Rioting broke out between the crusaders and the city's Jewish and Muslim inhabitants. Sancho ...