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==== Africa ====
* Spring &ndash; Almohad forces under [[Abd al-Mu'min]] defeat a Muslim [[Almoravid dynasty|Almoravid]] army at [[Tlemcen]].<ref name=Maghrebclassique /> Almoravid ruler [[Tashfin ibn Ali]] dies while escaping his enemies near [[Oran]]. He is succeeded by his son [[Ibrahim ibn Tashfin]].
* The [[Merinids]] of [[Morocco|Maghrib al-Aqsa]] attempt to resist the Almohads but are forced into the desert areas around the [[Tafilalt]].<ref name=Maghrebclassique>{{cite book|last=Meynier|first=Gilbert|title=L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518)|year=2010|publisher=La Découverte|location=Paris|isbn=978-2-7071-5231-2|page=171}}</ref> Oran falls to the Almohads.<ref>Picard C. (1997) ''La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Âge''. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, p. 64</ref> A [[Siculo-Norman|Norman]] raid against the [[Tripolitania]] region succeeds.