{"slug": "tlemcen", "label": "Tlemcen", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlemcen", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185134", "qid": "Q185134", "description": "city in Algeria", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [705, 1390], "span_label": ["705 CE", "1390 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "algeria", "label": "Algeria", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "abbasid-caliphate", "label": "Abbasid Caliphate", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "berber-people", "label": "Berber people", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "tunisia", "label": "Tunisia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ifriqiya", "label": "Ifriqiya", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "khawarij", "label": "Khawarij", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kairouan", "label": "Kairouan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "morocco", "label": "Morocco", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tangier", "label": "Tangier", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jawhar-general", "label": "Jawhar (general)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fatimid-caliphate", "label": "Fatimid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "idrisid-dynasty", "label": "Idrisid dynasty", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 705, "year_label": "705 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Arab general Musa ibn Nusayr conquers the city of Tlemcen in Algeria; once and for all solidifying Al-Maghreb Al-Awsat (Modern-day Algeria), which makes way for the stabilization of the entirety of North Africa a couple years later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807090#Arabian_Empire", "title": "705", "revid": 1340807090, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 765, "year_label": "765 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Zenata Berber tribe of Banu Ifran rebels against the Abbasid Caliphate, and creates an independent state centered around Tlemcen (modern Algeria). Their tribal chief Abu Qurra rebuilds the city (formerly, the Roman colonia Pomaria).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340847741#Abbasid_Caliphate", "title": "765", "revid": 1340847741, "section": "Events › By place › Abbasid Caliphate"}}, {"year": 767, "year_label": "767 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Kharijite Berbers of Tlemcen and Tiaret try to conquer Ifriqiya from the Abbasid Caliphate, but fail to capture the capital of Kairouan (modern Tunisia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350246348#Africa", "title": "AD 767", "revid": 1350246348, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 921, "year_label": "921 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Fatimid Caliphate crushes Idrisid forces in battle, capturing the cities of Tlemcen and Fez.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509617#Africa", "title": "921", "revid": 1341509617, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 958, "year_label": "958 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Fatimid general Abu al-Hasan Jawhar ibn Abd Allah takes Ifgan, the capital of the rebellious Kharijite Banu Ya'la tribe. In the following two years, Jawhar conquers most of the north of modern-day Morocco and Algeria. In particular, he conquers the cities of Tangier, Sijilmasa and Tlemcen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468198#Africa", "title": "958", "revid": 1364468198, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1145, "year_label": "1145 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Almohad forces under Abd al-Mu'min defeat a Muslim Almoravid army at Tlemcen. Almoravid ruler Tashfin ibn Ali dies while escaping his enemies near Oran. He is succeeded by his son Ibrahim ibn Tashfin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362160818#Africa", "title": "1145", "revid": 1362160818, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1242, "year_label": "1242 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – In the Maghreb, after a string of successes against the Almohad Caliphate, Hafsid forces under Sultan Abu Zakariya Yahya conquer the city of Tlemcen (modern Algeria). The Kingdom of Tlemcen becomes a vassal of Abu Zakariya, and is formed in a series of small states between his rule and the states of the Western Maghreb.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360512210#Africa", "title": "1242", "revid": 1360512210, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1390, "year_label": "1390 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – The Barbary Crusade begins as the Kingdom of France and the Republic of Genoa attempt to stop the raids of the Barbary pirates by invading the North African region of Ifriqiya and laying siege to Mahdia in what is now Tunisia. Louis II, Duke of Bourbon and Giacomo Fregoso of Genoa bring 6,000 knights and soldiers on 60 ships against 40,000 Muslim defenders led by the Caliph Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II of the Hafsid Sultanate and the Sultan Abu Tashufin II of Tlemcen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371631980#July–September", "title": "1390", "revid": 1371631980, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}