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==== Dénia—Balearic taifa (1015–1087) ==== {{unreferencedsect|date=December 2023}} [[File:0053-Palma de Mallorca.JPG|thumb|upright|Sant Nicolau Church]] The [[Umayyad]] regime, despite its administrative centralisation, mercenary army and struggle to gain wider social support, could neither harmonise the various ethnic groups inside al-Andalus nor dissolve the old tribes which still organised sporadic ethnic fighting. During the 11th century, the Caliphate's control waned considerably. Provinces broke free from the central Cordoban administration and became effectively sovereign states — ''[[taifa]]s'' — under the same governors that had been named by the last Umayyad Caliphs. According to their origin, these "taifas" can be grouped under three broad categories: people of [[Arabs|Arab]], [[Berbers|Berber]] or [[Saqaliba|Slavic]] origin.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Strangers_in_the_Land_Traveling_Texts_Im/wZ4LEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=taifas+Arab+Berber+or+Slavic+origin&pg=PA131&printsec=frontcover |title=Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times |date=2024-06-03 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-69331-9}}</ref> Palma was part of the [[taifa of Dénia]]. The founder of this state was a client of the [[Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir|Al-Mansur]] family, [[Muyahid ibn Yusuf ibn Ali]], who could profit from the progressive crumbling of the Caliphate's superstructure to gain control over the province of [[Dénia]]. Subsequently, Muyahid organised a campaign throughout the [[Balearic Islands]] to consolidate the district and incorporated it into their "taifa" in early 1015. During the following years, Palma became the main port from where attacks on Christian vessels and coasts could be launched. Palma was the base from where a campaign against [[Sardinia]] was launched between 1016 and 1017, which caused the [[republic of Pisa|Pisans]] and [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]] forces to intervene. Later, this intervention set the basis for Italian [[mercantile]] penetration of the city. The Denian dominion lasted until 1087, a period during which the city and the rest of the islands were relatively peaceful. Their supremacy at sea was still not rivaled by the [[Italian maritime republics|Italian merchant republics]], thus there were few external threats.
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