Zenith of the Almoravid Empire

Timeline

1. 1091–1095Southern Iberian Peninsula · al-AndalusAfter their great victory at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086, the Almoravid army gradually took over taifa kingdoms like Granada and Seville, bringing the Muslim polities of al-Andalus into the empire's military-political system and checking the momentum of the Christian Reconquista.
2. 1096–1100Maghreb, North Africa · MaghrebCentered on Marrakesh, the empire integrated Morocco, western Algeria, and southern Iberia, forming a political entity combining religious reform movement and military hegemony across the Strait of Gibraltar, becoming the strongest Islamic power in the western Mediterranean by the end of the 11th century.