The Miknasa were a Berber tribe in Morocco and western Algeria The Berbers (also called Imazighen, free men, singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. ...

The Miknasa Berbers originated in Tripolitania and southern Tunisia, but migrated westwards into central Morocco and western Algeria in pre-Islamic times. The modern Moroccan city of Meknes bears witness to their presence there. Tripolitania is a historic region of western Libya, centered around the coastal city of Tripoli. ... Islam ( Arabic al-islām الإسلام,  listen?) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith and the worlds second-largest religion. ... Meknes is a city in northern Morocco 130 kilometres from the capital Rabat and 60 kilometres from Fes. ...

After defeat by the Muslims the Miknasa converted to Islam. In 711 members of the tribe took part in the conquest of the Visigoth kingdom under Tariq ibn Ziyad. They settled north of Cordoba and in the 11th century founded the Aftasid dynsaty in Badajoz. A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... See also: phone number 711. ... The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, the Ostrogoths being the other. ... Tariq ibn Ziyad (d. ... Córdoba most commonly means Córdoba, Spain, a famous city in Spain inhabited since the time of ancient Rome, and the seat of the Emir of Córdoba and the Caliph of Córdoba. ... Badajoz (formerly Badajos), the capital of the Spanish province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, is situated close to the Portuguese frontier, on the left bank of the river Guadiana, and the Madrid-Lisbon railway. ...

Another group of the Miknasa took part in the Maysara uprising (739-742), adopted Kharijism and established the Emirate of Sijilmasa on the northern edge of the Sahara. This became very wealthy as the western end-point of the Trans-Saharan trade route with the Sudan. In alliance with the Caliphate of Cordoba it was able to fight off the attacks of the Fatimids. However, when the Miknasa chief Al-Mutazz allied himself with the Fatimids, the Miknasa were driven out of Sijilmasa by the Magrawa, who were allies of the Umayyads. Events With king Kormishosh the reign of the House of Ukil starts in Bulgaria. ... Events Chinese poet Li Po is presented before the emperor and given a position in the Imperial court. ... Kharijites were members of an Islamic sect in late 7th and early 8th century AD, concentrated in todays southern Iraq. ... Generally speaking, an emirate (Arabic imarah, plural imarat) is a territory that is administered by an emir, although in Arabic the term can be generalized to mean any province of a country that is administered by a member of the ruling class. ... Sijilmasa was a mediaeval trade centre in the western Maghreb Sijilmasa was an oasis town south west of Fez on the northern edge of the Sahara. ... The interior of the Great Mosque in Cordoba, now a Christian cathedral. ... The Fatimid Empire or Fatimid Caliphate ruled North Africa from A.D. 909 to 1171. ... The Umayyad Dynasty (Arabic الأمويون / بنو أمية umawiyy; in Turkish, Emevi) was the first dynasty of caliphs of the Prophet Muhammad who were not closely related to Muhammad himself, though they were of the same Meccan tribe, the Quraish. ...

A further group of Miknasa were allied with the Fatimids against the Umayyads, and overthrew the Rustamids of Tahert in 912 and drove the Salihids from northern Morocco in 917. But they could not maintain their resistance to the Magrawa in northern Morocco permanently, and, weakened by the struggle, they were subdued by the Almoravids in the 11th century. The Rustamid (or Rustumid, Rostemid) dynasty of Ibadi Kharijite imams ruled the central Maghreb for a century and a half from their capital Tahert, until destroyed by the Fatimids. ... Tahert (aka Tiaret or Tihert, the Berber for station) is the name of an Algerian town, one that gives its name to the wider farming region of Wilaya de Tiaret province in central Algeria. ... Events Orso II Participazio becomes Doge of Venice Patriarch Nicholas I Mysticus becomes patriarch of Constantinople Births November 23 - Otto I the Great Holy Roman Emperor (+ 973) Abd-ar-rahman III - prince of the Umayyad dynasty Deaths Oleg of Kiev Categories: 912 ... Events August 20 - Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drives the Byzantines out. ... Almoravides (From Arabic المرابطون sing. ...