Politic

The Kingdom of Granada comprised part of the present provinces of Jaén, Murcia and Cadiz, and the whole of Almeria, Malaga and Granada, but it was reduced until in the XV century it encompassed approximately the present provinces of Granada, Almeria and Malaga. The kingdom was divided into territorial and administrative districts, called tahas. Likewise, the Nasrid Kingdom suffered from an important problem of overpopulation.

The Nazari capital, Granada, became in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries one of the most prosperous cities in a Europe devastated by the crisis of the fourteenth century. It was a commercial and cultural center of first order that had about 165,000 inhabitants and of which are very important urban groups such as the Alhambra and the Generalife. In the Albaicín lived the craftsmen and the rest of the population occupied the flat part towards the South, with large industries, customs and madrasa

When Muhammad ibn Nasr, the first Nasrid king, consolidated the dominions of the Kingdom of Granada, he established the basic scheme of what would be the kingdom's army. In the Nazari Kingdom of Grenada the noble estate was formed by two groups: the autochthonous and the foreign. The native was formed the old landowners, who had great possessions and extensive dominions; They lived comfortably, sometimes even with luxury. The foreigner was composed of the noble families who had been forced to emigrate from the territories occupied by the Christians; Its members were forced to seek employment in court and evil when they did not reach it. Ibn al-Ahmar enlisted the outsiders in the army of Granada; For that reason it was initially formed by two militia corps: a permanent and salaried one, formed by the nobles and captained by the king, and another, the Muttavia, of temporary mercenaries recruited for a certain company and in which the warriors of Any social condition.

Marina

From 1264, the first volunteers led by the brothers Abu Tabit Amir ibn Idris and Abu al-Muarrif Muhammad arrived from Tremecén to the Nazarite kingdom, so another regular militia formed by volunteer Berbers and Moroccan exiles is organized. In addition to these bodies, the Nazarite kings, recalling the custom of the Cordovan Omeyas and the Taifas kings of the eleventh century, entrust their personal guard to a special body formed only by Christians, Castilians mostly, exiled or fled their land, sometimes Captives, Islamized or elche.

The Nazarí war fleet had its main base in the port of Almeria. Nevertheless, the fleet was weak, little imposing and was used more in the piracy by the coast of the Crown of Aragon than in open warfare. The inhabitants of the Nasrid kingdom were little fond of the navy, according to Ibn Khaldun, of whom he says that they were "strangers in the sea." The Nazarite army was forced to enlist mercenaries, daring almogávares and adventurers of the sea, whose ideal was piracy. In the most brilliant period of the Granada navy, in the fourteenth century, two prominent Almerians stood out: the qaid Abu-l-Hasan and his nephew, Abu Abd Allah Ibn Salvator.

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