Barghawata

744 CE – 1058 CE · about 314 years

The Barghawata were a Berber tribal confederation and religious movement that ruled part of Morocco's Atlantic coast between Safi and Salé from the 8th to the 11th century. After joining the Sufri rebellion against the Umayyads they founded an independent state under Tarif al-Matghari. The Almoravids eventually defeated them, though the Almoravid leader Abdallah ibn Yasin died fighting them in 1058.