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Hafsid Kingdom Sultanate of Tunis | |||||||||||||||
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| 1229–1574 | |||||||||||||||
.svg)  Left: Reconstructed Flag of the Hafsid dynasty of the 15th century[1] | |||||||||||||||
 Realm of the Hafsid dynasty in 1400 (orange) | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Tunis | ||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Berber, Maghrebi Arabic | ||||||||||||||
| Religion | Islam (Sunni, Ibadi), Christianity (Roman Catholic), Judaism | ||||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||
| Sultanate | |||||||||||||||
• 1229–1249 | Abu Zakariya | ||||||||||||||
• 1574 | Muhammad VI | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• Established | 1229 | ||||||||||||||
| 1535 | |||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1574 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of |  Tunisia Algeria Libya | ||||||||||||||
The Hafsids (Arabic: الحفصيون al-Ḥafṣiyūn) were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Berber descent[2] who ruled Ifriqiya (western Libya, Tunisia, and eastern Algeria) from 1229 to 1574.
- ^ "الحفصيون/بنو حفص في تونس، بجاية وقسنطينة". www.hukam.net.
- ^ C. Magbaily Fyle, Introduction to the History of African Civilization: Precolonial Africa, (University Press of America, 1999), 84.