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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 ...
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.
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.
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, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east , and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south .
Casablanca-Settat (Arabic: الدار البيضاء - سطات, romanized: ad-dār al-bayḍāʾ - siṭṭāt) is one of the twelve administrative regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 20,166 km 2 and recorded a population of 6,861,739 in the 2014 Moroccan census, [1] 69% of which lived in urban areas. [2] The capital of the region is ...
Regional capitals in Morocco (1 C, 12 P) This page was last edited on 30 November 2020, at 14:50 (UTC). Text ... This page was last edited on 30 November 2020, ...
The 1465 Moroccan revolution was a popular uprising in the city of Fez, which was the capital of Morocco, against Sultan Abd al-Haqq II, the last ruler of the Marinid dynasty, and his Jewish vizier, Harun ibn Batash. Morocco was in severe crisis in the mid-15th century, including a progressive Portuguese invasion of the country.