emirate · Iberia

Taifa of Morón

1013 CE – 1066 CE (approx.) · capital Morón de la Frontera

A Berber principality around Morón de la Frontera, one of the small hill-town states between Seville and Ronda that the Abbadids absorbed.

Origins

Around 1013 the Banu Dammar, a Berber clan whose soldiers had served the Córdoban caliphs, took control of Morón and its district in the countryside south-east of Seville under Nuh ibn Abi Tuziri al-Dammari.

Rule and society

Morón was a modest state built around a castle, olive groves and grain land. Its rulers allied with the Hammudids and the other Berber taifas, such as the Taifa of Carmona and the Taifa of Ronda, against the expanding Arab dynasty of Seville. Little is known of its administration.

Decline and legacy

In 1066 al-Mutadid of the Taifa of Seville annexed Morón, reportedly after luring Berber rulers into a trap. The town remained Muslim until the Castilian conquest in the 13th century.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

Lineage

Caliphate of Córdoba 929 CE – 1031 CETaifa of Morón

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Taifa of Morón. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/taifa-of-moron
MLA
“Taifa of Morón.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/taifa-of-moron. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Taifa of Morón.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/taifa-of-moron.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Taifa of Morón’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/taifa-of-moron (Accessed: ).

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