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Morocco, Wattasid Sultanate of
The Wattassids are a ruling dynasty of Morocco.Like the Marinids, they are of Zenata Berber descent The two families are related, and the Marinids had recruited many viziers from the Wattasids.
These viziers assume the powers of the Sultans, seizing power when the last Marinid, Abu Muhammad Abd al-Haqq, who had massacred many of the Wattasids in 1459, was murdered during a popular revolt in Fez in 1465.Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Mahdi is the first Wattasid Sultan, but controls only the northern part of Morocco, the south being divided into several principalities.The Wattasids are finally supplanted in 1554, after the Battle of Tadla, by the Saadi princes of Tagmadert who have ruled all the South of Morocco since 1511.
Member Cities
- Fez > Fés Figuig Morocco Capital
- Algiers > Alger Alger Algeria Location
- Bougie > Bejaïa Bèjaïa Algeria Location
- Càgliari > Carales Sardegna Italy Location
- Faro Faro Portugal Location
- Fés Figuig Morocco Location
- Granada Andalucia Spain Location
- Isola di Capo Rizzuto Calabria Italy Location
- Kairouan > El Kairouan Al-Qayrawan Tunisia Location
- Laujar de Andarax Andalucia Spain Location
- Livorno (Leghorn) Toscana Italy Location
- Marrakech Marrakech Morocco Location
- Melilla Spanish Morocco Spain Location
- Mers el Kèbir Oran Algeria Location
- Oran (Ouahran) Oran Algeria Location
- Paris Ile-de-France France Location
- Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera Spain Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
- Sagres Faro Portugal Location
- Tlemcen Tlemcen Algeria Location
- Tripoli > Tarabulus Tarabulus Libya Location
- Tunis Tunis Tunisia Location
- Venice > Venezia Veneto Italy Location