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Location Coordinates ... Identifier Upload Photo: Aghzdisse lighthouse Agadir: 30°25'47.384"N, 9°38'7.876"W ... Al Amrou Madrasa Agadir: 30°31'0.977"N, 9°35'14. ...
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The oldest building in the compound, Dar al-Emrat, dates to 1740. Summer Palace of Skhirat, created by King Hassan II, [4] the scene of the 1971 Moroccan coup d'état attempt; [5] Royal Palace of Agadir, created by Hassan II in the 1990s and including an ocean-facing golf course; [6]
Agadir (Arabic: أكادير or أڭادير, romanized: ʾagādīr, pronounced [ʔaɡaːdiːr]; Tachelhit: ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ) is a major city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean, and 509 kilometres (316 mi) south of Casablanca.
Medina, [a] officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah (Arabic: المدينة المنورة, romanized: al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, lit. 'The Luminous City', Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [al.maˈdiːna al.mʊˈnawːara]) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (المدينة, al-Madina) and known in pre-Islamic times as Yathrib (يَثْرِب), is the capital of Medina Province in the ...
The White Palace was located in the Madina al-Atiqa section on the eastern bank. The White Palace was the main residence of the Sasanian King of Kings in the capital of Ctesiphon (about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Baghdad), most likely founded by the second Sasanian monarch Shapur I (r. 240–270). [1]
The province of Tiznit is in the western side of the Anti-Atlas. Tiznit, some 80 km south of Agadir, is a place full of Imazighn ( isoussin). Historically speaking, Tiznit was the starting point of the famous dynasty of Almoravides who came to rule Morocco from Madrasa El Ouaggaguia in Aglou (a coastal village 14 km from Tiznit).
The site was then left unoccupied for years until Muhammad's successor, Abdallah al-Ghalib (r. 1557–1574), built a new fortress on the hilltop. [2] [8] The Kasbah was destroyed for the first time in November 1755 during Lisbon earthquake, [11] and again in 1960, during the Agadir earthquake. The Kasbah underwent a major restoration in 2002. [12]