The Aghlabids were an Arab dynasty that ruled Ifriqiya, roughly today's Tunisia and eastern Algeria, as semi-independent emirs under the nominal authority of the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad. Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab, who received the province from Harun al-Rashid, founded the line, and their capital was Kairouan, where they built the Great Mosque and a network of irrigation works. From 827 they began to conquer Sicily from the Byzantines, taking Palermo in 831, and raided southern Italy. The dynasty was overthrown in 909 by the Fatimids, who rose from the Kutama Berbers under Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i.
Before and after
- from 800 CE to 1600Mississippian culture
- 8th centuryOrigins of Prague
- from 8th century to 9th centuryRise of Carolingian Renaissance
- 800 CEBook of Kells
- from 800 CE to 909 CEAghlabids
- from 800 CE to 887 CECarolingian Empire
- from 8th century to 13th centuryHouse of Wisdom
- 8th centuryConstruction of Borobudur Temple
- from 800 CE to 1540Muisca Confederations
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The era
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