To the Almoravides succeeded the Almohades coming from the Atlas of Morocco.

To the Almohades, the Merias coming from Sahara in Algeria, but in dying out each of these dynasties left each time a little more ground under the hands of the Christians, who, since the time in Telage, when they were tracked into the caverns of Covadonga, had not ceased, in spite of ill fortune of all sorts, to follow the work of deliverance.

This dynasty was overthrown by the Almohades in 1145, and the latter became extinct in Spain in 1257.

After the disruption of the realm of the Almohades, the Moorish kingdom of Granada was established, and was held in vassalage to Castile, of which Ferdinand and Isabella, in 1474, became joint sovereigns.

SIR EDWARD S. CREASY Triumphs of Hildebrand "The Turning-point of the Middle Ages" Henry IV Begs for Mercy at Canossa (A.D. 1073-1085) ARTHUR R. PENNINGTON ARTAUD DE MONTOR Completion of the Domesday Book (A.D. 1086) CHARLES KNIGHT Decline of the Moorish Power in Spain Growth and Decay of the Almoravide and Almohade Dynasties (A.D. 1086-1214)

DECLINE OF THE MOORISH POWER IN SPAIN GROWTH AND DECAY OF THE ALMORAVIDE AND ALMOHADE DYNASTIES A.D. 1086-1214 S.A. DUNHAM

[Footnote 30: This Moslem dynasty, founded about 1050, ruled in Africa, and afterward in Spain, until 1147, when it was overthrown and succeeded by that of the Almohades.]

Probably they would at this time have been driven from it but for the seasonable arrival of the victorious Almohades.

Most of these conquests, however, were subsequently recovered by the Almohades.

He was, beyond doubt, the greatest and best of the Almohades.

They found not only the passes, but the summits of the mountains, occupied by the Almohades.

ALMOHADES, a Moslem dynasty which ruled in N. Africa and Spain from 1129 to 1273.