Almohad fleet dominates the western Mediterranean
1156
The Almohad caliph Abd al-Mu'min launched an ambitious naval building program at the Atlantic ports of Salé and Ceuta that produced a war fleet capable of challenging the Normans, Genoese, and Pisans for supremacy in the western Mediterranean. For a generation, Almohad warships controlled the Strait of Gibraltar and raided the exposed coasts of southern Iberia and the Balearic Islands with near impunity.
In context
Also in 1156 (3 other events on record)
- Hogen rebellion in Japan · East Asia · War
- Seljuk Sultan Sanjar dies in exile · Central Asia · Politics
- Privilegium Minus elevates Austria · Europe · Politics
Before and after in Africa
Before and after in War
Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.