Taifa kings continue to fall to Almoravids

1094

Yusuf ibn Tashfin's forces methodically deposed the Muslim taifa kings of al-Andalus who had once invited them to defeat Alfonso VI. Seville, Granada, and Cordoba all came under direct Almoravid rule. Muslim Spain, briefly a mosaic of petty courts, was reunified under austere Berber overlordship from the south. The poet-king al-Mu'tamid of Seville was exiled to Morocco, where he died composing verses of heartbreaking nostalgia.