قلعة بني حماد و وجهتها في العصر الوسيط : دراسة منوغرافية

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Beni Hammad fort has a great strategic and fortified location, it is considered as a link between west and east, it is a huge fort, rather an important fortress.

The Fort is established by "Hammad ibn Buluggin" who could impose himself as a worthy man able to establish the first independent state in the "Central Maghreb", a man with a strong character, clever and witty, an expert military and politician leader.

After the death of "Badis" ,Hammad's army marched toward "Achir" then "Baghaya"; but he was defeated by the army of "el Mou'iz", consequently Hammad asked "el Mou'iz" for reconciliation, a peace was signed between the two, as a result of that "Sanhaja" was devided into two states; Zirid and Hammadi states (The kings of the Fort, and this is how the Hammadid state was established after the Zirid recognized its legitimacy.