The Fatimid Caliphate (Arabic: الفاطميون, al-Fāṭimīyūn) wis a Shia Islamic caliphate, that spanned a muckle area o North Africae, frae the Reid Sea in the east an tae the Atlantic Ocean in the wast.
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Fatimid Islamic Caliphate
الدولة الفاطمية
ad-Dawlat al-Fāṭimiyya |
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| 909–1171 |
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- Raqqada (909–921)
- Mahdia (921–948)
- al-Mansuriya (948–973)
- Cairo (973–1171)
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| Common leids | Arabic (offeecial), Berber |
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| Releegion | Ismaili Shia Islam |
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| Govrenment | Caliphate |
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• 909–934 (first) | al-Mahdi Billah |
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• 1160–1171 (last) | al-'Āḍid |
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| Historical era | Early Middle Ages |
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• Established | Januar 5 909 |
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• Foondation o Cairo | August 8, 969 |
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• Disestablished | 1171 |
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| 969[2] | 4,100,000 km2 (1,600,000 sq mi) |
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| Population |
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• | 6,200,000 |
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| Currency | Dinar |
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| Precedit bi | Succeedit bi |
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| Ayyubid Sultanate |
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| Outremer |
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| Emirate o Sicily |
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| Zirid Emirate |
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| Hammadid Emirate |
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