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Wattasid dynasty الوطاسيون | |||||||||
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| 1472–1554 | |||||||||
 Map of the Wattasid sultanate (dark red) and its vassal states (light red) | |||||||||
| Status | Ruling dynasty of Morocco
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| Capital | Fez | ||||||||
| Common languages | Berber languages Arabic[3] | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Sultan | |||||||||
• 1472-1504 | Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya | ||||||||
• 1545-1547 | Nasir al-Qasri | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1472 | ||||||||
| 1554 | |||||||||
| Currency | Dirham | ||||||||
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The Wattasid dynasty (Arabic: الوطاسيون, al-waṭṭāsīyūn) was a ruling dynasty of Morocco. Like the Marinid dynasty, its rulers were of Zenata Berber descent.[4] The two families were related, and the Marinids recruited many viziers from the Wattasids.[4] These viziers assumed the powers of the Sultans, seizing control of the Marinid dynasty's realm when the last Marinid, Abu Muhammad Abd al-Haqq, who had massacred many of the Wattasids in 1459, was murdered during a popular revolt in Fez in 1465.
Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya was the first Sultan of the Wattasid Dynasty. He controlled only the northern part of Morocco, the south being divided into several principalities. The Wattasids were finally supplanted in 1554, after the Battle of Tadla, by the Saadi dynasty princes of Tagmadert who had ruled all of southern Morocco since 1511.
- ^ 100 fiches d'histoire moderne Stéphane Durand, Éric Wenzel Editions Bréal
- ^ Collier's Encyclopedia: With Bibliography and Index, Volume 17
- ^ Brancato 2014, p. 64-65.
- ^ a b Bosworth 1996, p. 48.