Marinid dynasty
The Marinid Sultanate was a Berber empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century which controlled present-day Morocco and, intermittently, other parts of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) and of southern Spain around Gibraltar. It was named after the Banu Marin (, Berber: "Ayt Mrin"), a Zenata Berber tribe. The sultanate was ruled by the Marinid dynasty ( ), founded by Abd al-Haqq I.