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Rabat (/ r ə ˈ b ɑː t /, also UK: / r ə ˈ b æ t /, US: / r ɑː ˈ b ɑː t /; [3] [4] [5] Arabic: الرباط, romanized: ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) [2] and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. It is also the ...
Meknes (Arabic: مكناس, romanized: maknās, pronounced) is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco, located in northern central Morocco and the sixth largest city by population in the kingdom. Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids as a military settlement, Meknes became the capital of Morocco during the reign of Sultan Ismail Ibn ...
It was founded in 1071 and became the capital for the two following centuries. Marrakesh was the capital city for: the Almoravid dynasty, from 1071 to 1147; the Almohad dynasty, from 1147 to 1244; the Saadi dynasty, as princes of Tagmadert from 1511 to 1554 and as sultans of Morocco from 1554 to 1659; the Alawi dynasty, in certain periods.
Marrakesh–Safi (Arabic: مراكش آسفي, romanized: murrākuš āsafi) is one of the twelve regions of Morocco. [1] Its population in 2014 was 4,520,569. [ 2 ] The capital is Marrakesh .
Morocco's capital city is Rabat; its largest city is its main port, Casablanca. Other cities recording a population over 500,000 in the 2014 Moroccan census are Fes, Marrakesh, Meknes, Salé and Tangier. [104] Morocco is represented in the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 geographical encoding standard by the symbol MA. [105]
Moulay Ismail's 55-year reign is the longest of any sultan of Morocco. During his lifetime, Isma’il amassed a harem of over 500 women with more than 800 confirmed biological children, making him one of the most prodigious fathers in recorded history. The reign of Moulay Ismail marked a high watermark for Moroccan power.
1955 - Rabat becomes capital of independent Morocco. [1] 1957 - Moulay-Hassan Bridge opens. 1958 - Association Sportive des Forces Armées Royales football club formed. 1959 - Maghreb Arabe Press established. 1960 - Population: 233,000. [4] 1961 - National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics established.
The Ottomans would try to invade Morocco after the assassination of Mohammed ash-Sheikh in 1558, but were stopped by his son Abdallah al-Ghalib at the battle of Wadi al-Laban north of Fez. Hence, Morocco remained the only North-African state to remain outside Ottoman control. [66] After the death of Abdallah al-Ghalib a new power struggle would ...