List of rulers of Morocco

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Mohammed VI , since 1999 King of Morocco

The following list gives an overview of all rulers who ruled or are ruling in the area of ​​today's Morocco .

antiquity

Carthaginians

Kings of Mauritania

The Kingdom of Mauritania was from 111 BC. BC to AD 40 an ancient Berber kingdom in northwest Africa.

  • Bocchus I (111 BC - 80 BC)
  • Bogudes (80 BC - uncertain)
  • Bocchus II (50 BC - 33 BC)
  • Juba II (25 BC - 23 AD)
  • Ptolemy (AD 23 - AD 40)

Romans

Vandals

Byzantines

middle Ages

Umayyads

With the conquest of the Maghreb by the armies of the Umayyads - Caliph of Damascus . Morocco in the late 7th century part of the Islamic world.

Abbasids

The Baghdad Abbasid caliphs, who overthrew the Umayyads in 750, were unable to permanently enforce their rule over distant Morocco and soon lost the country to various local dynasties.

Idrisids

The Shiite Idrisids , independent from the Abbasids, ruled Morocco from 789 to 985 as the first local Arab-Muslim dynasty. In the 10th century they got caught up in the power struggle between the Umayyads of Cordoba and the Fatimids . The latter succeeded in first subjugating the Idrisides, which divided into several lines, and then completely eliminating them.

  • Idris I ibn Abdallah (789-791)
  • Idris II. Ibn Idris I (791-828)
  • Muhammad ibn Idris II (828-836)
  • Ali I. Haydara ibn Muhammad (836-849)
  • Yahya I ibn Muhammad (849-863)
  • Yahya II. Ibn Yahya I (863-866)
  • Ali II. Ibn Umar (866-?)
  • Yahya III. ibn al-Qasim (? -905)
  • Yahya IV. Ibn Idris (905-919)
  • al-Hasan ibn Muhammad (925-927)
  • al-Qasim Gannun ibn Muhammad (937-948)
  • Ahmad ibn al-Qasim (948-954)
  • al-Hasan ibn al-Qasim (954–974 and 985)

Midrarids

The Midrarids, Kharijite Berbers from the Miknasa tribe , ruled the principality of Sidschilmasa in southeastern Morocco from around 823 to 977 , initially under the suzerainty of the Abbasids and later vassals of the Fatimids. Their rule came to an end when the Maghrava took Sijilmasa under their leader Khazrun .

  • Abu Malik Midrar al-Muntasir (approx. 823–867)
  • Maymun al-Amir (867-877)
  • Muhammad (877-884)
  • Abu l-Mansur Ilyasa (884-909)
  • Wasul al-Fath (909-913)
  • Ahmad (913-921)
  • Abu l-Muntasir Muhammad al-Mutazz (921-933)
  • Samgu al-Muntasir (933-943 and 958-963)
  • Muhammad ash-Shakir (943-958)
  • Abu Muhammad Abdallah (963 to approx. 977)

Fatimids

The Fatimids were an Ismaili caliph dynasty who ruled from Cairo over a large empire that also included Morocco from 985.

Almoravids

The Sunni Berber dynasty of the Almoravids ruled Morocco from around 1062. Their great empire also included Mauritania , Algeria and al-Andalus until it fell to the Almohads in 1147 .

Almohads

Like their predecessors, the Almoravids, the Almohads were Sunni Berbers. Their great empire comprised the entire Maghreb and al-Andalus and lasted until 1269.

Merinids

The Berber dynasty of the Merinids , who ruled Morocco from around 1217 , was able to briefly reunite the Maghreb as the heir to the Almohads, but did not manage to incorporate al-Andalus into their empire. After the Merinids lost more and more power at the end of the 14th century, they came under the rule of the Wattasids from 1420 , from whom they were finally eliminated in 1465.

  • Abdalhaqq I (1195-1217)
  • Uthman I. (1217-1240)
  • Muhammad I (1240-1244)
  • Abu Yahya Abu Bakr (1244–1258)
  • Umar (1258-1259)
  • Abu Yusuf Yaqub (1259-1286)
  • Abu Yaqub Yusuf (1286-1307)
  • Abu Tabil (1307-1308)
  • Abu l-Rabia (1308-1310)
  • Abu Said Uthman II (1310-1331)
  • Abu l-Hasan (1331-1351)
  • Abu Inan Faris (1351-1358)
  • Muhammad II. As Said (1358-1359)
  • Abu Salim Ali II (1359-1361)
  • Abu Umar Tashufin (1361)
  • Abd al-Halim (1361-1362)
  • Abu Zayyan Muhammad III (1362-1366)
  • Abu l-Fariz Abdul Aziz I (1366-1372)
  • Muhammad IV (1372-1374)
  • Abu l-Abbas Ahmad (1374-1384)
  • Musa (1384-1386)
  • Muhammad V (1386)
  • Muhammad VI. (1386-1387)
  • Abu l-Abbas Ahmad (1387-1393)
  • Abdul Aziz II (1393-1396)
  • Abdullah (1396-1398)
  • Abu Said Uthman III. (1398-1420)
  • Abdalhaqq II. (1420-1465)

Wattasids

The Wattasids ruled Morocco from 1420, when the country fell into chaos, initially as rulers of the powerless Merinids and from 1472 completely independently.

Modern times

Saadians

The Saadian goods by the Idrisids the second sharifs dynasty that ruled over Morocco. They ruled from 1510 to 1659 and overthrew the last Wattasid in 1554.

Alavids

The Alawids have been the ruling dynasty in Morocco since 1664. Before 1957 they carried the title of sultan , after the proclamation of Muhammad V that of a king.

See also

Web links

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