Hafsid dynasty

Hafsid Kingdom
Sultanate of Tunis
Hafsid Kingdom; Sultanate of Tunis
1229–1574
	Left: Reconstructed flag of the Hafsid dynasty of the 15th century; Right: Flag of Hafsid Tunisia according to Jacobo Russo, 1550
	Realm of the Hafsid dynasty in 1400 (orange)
Capital	Tunis
Common languages	Arabic, Berber
Religion	Islam (Sunni, Ibadi), Christianity (Roman Catholic), Judaism
Government	Monarchy
Sultan
• 1229–1249	Abu Zakariya
• 1574	Muhammad VI
History
• Established	1229
• Conquest of Tunis	1535
• Disestablished	1574
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Almohad Caliphate
Ottoman Tunisia
Regency of Algiers
Spanish Tripoli
Kingdom of Kuku
Ottoman Tripolitania
Today part of	Tunisia; Algeria; Libya;

The Hafsids (Arabic: الحفصيون al-Ḥafṣiyūn) were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Berber descent^[3] who ruled Ifriqiya (modern day Tunisia, western Libya, and eastern Algeria) from 1229 to 1574.

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^ C. Magbaily Fyle, Introduction to the History of African Civilization: Precolonial Africa, (University Press of America, 1999), 84.