Tlemcen

Tlemcen was the Zayyanid kingdom of the central Maghreb, ruled from Tlemcen. In 1337 Sultan Abu Tashufin I faced a Marinid siege of his capital.

Abu Tashufin died defending the city in 1337; Marinid occupation lasted, with one interruption, until 1359. Abu Hammu II revived the kingdom, but in the fifteenth century it intermittently became a vassal of the Hafsids, Marinids and Aragon. Spain seized Oran in 1509; by 1551 the Ottomans of Algiers had taken Tlemcen and the last Zayyanid sultan had fled to Spanish Oran.