THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1228–1287

Taifa of Menorca

The last Muslim state in the Balearics. After James I of Aragon took Majorca, Menorca's leaders accepted his overlordship by the Treaty of Capdepera (1231) and kept self-government as a tributary state until Alfonso III of Aragon conquered the island in 1287.

See Taifa of Menorca on the map in 1228

On the map
1228–1287
Capital
Medina Minurqa (Ciutadella)

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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