What is Zayyanid dynasty?
{{Infobox royal house | surname = Zayyanid dynasty | coat of arms = | country = [[Algeria]] | parent house = [[Zayyanid Dynasty]] {{flagicon image|Dz_tlem2.png|size=22px}} | titles = [[Sultan]] of [[Tlemcen]] | styles = | founder = [[Yaghmurasen Ibn Zyan]] | final_ruler = Hassan ibn Abdallah II | current head = | founding year = 1236 | dissolution = 1556 | deposition = 1556 | cadet branches = }} '''Zayyanids''' ({{lang-ar|زيانيون}}, ''Ziyānyūn'') or '''Abd al-Wadids''' ({{lang-ar|بنو عبد الواد}}), or Banu Zayan, is the name of an [[Islam]]ic [[Berber people|Berber]] [[Zenata]]<ref name=countrystudies>{{Cite web | last = Chapan Metz | first = Helen | title = Zayanids | work = Algeria: A Country Study | publisher = GPO for the Library of Congress | location = Washington | url = http://countrystudies.us/algeria/12.htm | accessdate = April 23, 2018}}</ref> [[dynasty]] in [[North Africa]].<ref name=Naylor98>Phillip Chiviges Naylor, ''North Africa: a history from antiquity to the present'', (University of Texas Press, 2009), 98.</ref> The Zayyanids, whose capital was [[Tlemcen]] (in modern-day [[Algeria]]) existed from 1235 to 1556. They were also known as Abdelwadid.<ref name=Naylor98/> ==References== <references /> {{hist-stub}} [[Category:History of Algeria]] [[Category:History of Morocco]] [[Category:Former monarchies of Africa]] [[Category:Royal dynasties]] [[Category:1550s disestablishments]] [[Category:1230s establishments in Africa]]