{"slug": "zirid-dynasty", "label": "Zirid dynasty", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirid_dynasty", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205718", "qid": "Q205718", "description": "Sanhaja Berber dynasty 972-1148", "entries": 23, "years": 23, "span": [935, 1123], "span_label": ["935 CE", "1123 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 13}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ifriqiya", "label": "Ifriqiya", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "tunisia", "label": "Tunisia", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "emirate-of-sicily", "label": "Emirate of Sicily", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "maghreb", "label": "Maghreb", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "fatimid-caliphate", "label": "Fatimid Caliphate", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "mahdia", "label": "Mahdia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "abbasid-caliphate", "label": "Abbasid Caliphate", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "algeria", "label": "Algeria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sunni-islam", "label": "Sunni Islam", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "shia-islam", "label": "Shia Islam", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "north-africa", "label": "North Africa", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kairouan", "label": "Kairouan", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": 935, "year_label": "935 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ziri ibn Manad is installed as governor of central Maghreb. He initiates the construction of the fortress of Ashir, near Médéa (modern Algeria). It symbolises the rise of the Zirid dynasty in the Western Mediterranean region.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468168#Africa", "title": "935", "revid": 1364468168, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 944, "year_label": "944 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The cities of Algiers and Miliana are re-founded by the Zirid ruler (emir) Buluggin ibn Ziri.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512279#Africa", "title": "944", "revid": 1341512279, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 967, "year_label": "967 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Fatimid general Jawhar al-Siqilli launches a military campaign in the west of the Maghreb. He resumes his expansion, together with the Zirids, and conquers Fez (modern-day Morocco).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364919490#Arabian_Empire", "title": "967", "revid": 1364919490, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 971, "year_label": "971 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ziri ibn Manad, founder of the Zirid dynasty", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364918921#Deaths", "title": "971", "revid": 1364918921, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 972, "year_label": "972 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Buluggin ibn Ziri is appointed viceroy in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) and becomes the first ruler (emir) of the Zirid Dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272305#Africa", "title": "972", "revid": 1365272305, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 984, "year_label": "984 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Buluggin ibn Ziri, ruler (emir) of the Zirid Dynasty", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341908618#Deaths", "title": "984", "revid": 1341908618, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 987, "year_label": "987 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Zirid Dynasty fails to reconquer the western part of the Maghreb (Land of Atlas), which they have recently lost to the Umayyad Caliphate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468366#Africa", "title": "987", "revid": 1364468366, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1014, "year_label": "1014 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Hammad ibn Buluggin adopts Sunni Islam and declares his independence from the Zirid dynasty (modern Algeria). He recognizes the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad as being the rightful caliphs and becomes the first ruler of the Hammadid dynasty (until 1028).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212610#Africa", "title": "1014", "revid": 1342212610, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1016, "year_label": "1016 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Badis ibn Mansur, Muslim emir of the Zirid dynasty", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365261531#Deaths", "title": "1016", "revid": 1365261531, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1017, "year_label": "1017 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Sunnis of Kairouan (modern Tunisia) revolt against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken and sacked.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212758#Africa", "title": "1017", "revid": 1342212758, "section": "Events › Africa"}}, {"year": 1022, "year_label": "1022 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The 14-year-old Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, with support of the Zirid nobles, takes over the government and (as a minor) ascends to the throne in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342213197#Africa", "title": "1022", "revid": 1342213197, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1023, "year_label": "1023 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 18", "text": "October 18 – Zirid princess and regent", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342213204#Deaths", "title": "1023", "revid": 1342213204, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1024, "year_label": "1024 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine expedition to invade Sicily: Governor Ahmed al-Akhal appeals to the Zirids of Ifriqiya for help. They dispatch a fleet, but these are caught up in a storm and destroyed near Pantelleria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342213215#Europe", "title": "1024", "revid": 1342213215, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1025, "year_label": "1025 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emir Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis of the Zirid dynasty in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) attempts to retake Sicily but is unsuccessful.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367042525#Africa", "title": "1025", "revid": 1367042525, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1036, "year_label": "1036 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A Zirid expeditionary force invades Sicily and takes Palermo from the Normans, but fails to fully reconquer the island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342215297#Europe", "title": "1036", "revid": 1342215297, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1037, "year_label": "1037 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Summer – A Byzantine expeditionary force under George Maniakes lands at Sicily, and defeats the Zirids. Maniakes begins his campaign to reconquer the island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342215302#Europe", "title": "1037", "revid": 1342215302, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1041, "year_label": "1041 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Zirid dynasty rejects Shi'ite obedience and Fatimid domination, and recognizes the Abbasids as their overlords.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365267586#Africa", "title": "1041", "revid": 1365267586, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1049, "year_label": "1049 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Banu Hilal, a confederation of tribes of Arabia, begin their invasion in the Maghreb (North Africa). They are organized by the Egyptian Fatimid Caliphate to punish their former Zirid vassals.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129777#Africa", "title": "1049", "revid": 1350129777, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1052, "year_label": "1052 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Haydaran: The Zirid dynasty is defeated by the invading Bedouin Arab tribes of the Banu Hilal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350127696#Africa", "title": "1052", "revid": 1350127696, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1057, "year_label": "1057 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Banu Hilal razes Kairouan (in modern Tunisia). The Zirid dynasty has to re-settle to Mahdia (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1335991921#Africa", "title": "1057", "revid": 1335991921, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1116, "year_label": "1116 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya, Ali ibn Yahya, conquers the island of Jerba, then acting as an independent piratical republic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362168627#Africa", "title": "1116", "revid": 1362168627, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1117, "year_label": "1117 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Conflict between the de facto independent Muslim republics of Gabès and Mahdia (modern Tunisia) in Ifriqiya. Madhia is supported by the Zirid Dynasty while Gabes receives the aid of Roger II, count of Sicily.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361694426#Africa", "title": "1117", "revid": 1361694426, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1123, "year_label": "1123 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – Battle of Al-Dimas: An Italo-Norman campaign in North Africa ends with their troops being massacred by Zirid forces near Mahdia (modern Tunisia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366532227#July–September", "title": "1123", "revid": 1366532227, "section": "Events › By date › July–September"}}]}