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-Emerging out of an Islamic reform movement among the Sanhaja Berber pastoralists in the eleventh century,this empire incorporated a large part of northwestern Africa with its capital in Marrakesh.In 1086,it crossed into southern Spain where it offered vigorous opposition to Christian efforts to conquer the region.The empire had collapsed by the mid-twelfth century.

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The description matches the emergence and collapse of the Almoravid Empire, which was a Berber empire that emerged in the eleventh century and incorporated northwestern Africa with its capital in Marrakesh. It also crossed into Spain and offered opposition to Christian efforts to conquer the region before its collapse in the mid-twelfth century.

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