The Kingdom of Sicily (, , , , ) was a state that existed in the south of the Italian peninsula and for a time the region of Ifriqiya from its founding by Roger II of Sicily in 1130 until 1816. It was a successor state of the County of Sicily, which had been founded in 1071 during the Norman conquest of the southern peninsula. The island was divided into three regions: Val di Mazara, Val Demone and Val di Noto; "val" being the apocopic form of the word "vallo", derived from the Arabic word "wilāya" (meaning 'district').