

It was ruled by sultans of the Zayyanid dynasty. The Tlemcen Kingdom was established after the demise of the Almohad Caliphate in 1236, and later fell under Ottoman rule in 1554.

Its territory stretched from Tlemcen to the Chelif bend and Algiers, and at its zenith included all of Morocco as its vassal to the west and in the east reached as far as Tunis which they captured during the reign of Abu Tashfin. The Kingdom of Tlemcen or Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen ( Arabic: الزيانيون) was a Berber kingdom in what is now the northwest of Algeria.
