Almoravid Yusuf ibn Tashfin Consolidates North Africa
1082
With Morocco secured and the Saharan trade routes under firm control, Yusuf ibn Tashfin turned his attention to consolidating the Maghreb. Almoravid armies pushed east toward Algiers and Tlemcen, extending the empire's reach across the full breadth of North Africa's Mediterranean coast. The Almoravid domain now stretched from the Senegal River to the approaches of Ifriqiya - a territorial span that rivaled the old Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.