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The bones of several very early Homo sapiens were excavated at Jebel Irhoud in 1991, these were dated using modern techniques in 2017 and found to be at least 300,000 years old, making them the oldest examples of Homo sapiens discovered anywhere in the world. [10]
Morocco, [d] officially the Kingdom of Morocco, [e] 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 .
The region constituting Morocco has been inhabited since the Paleolithic era over 300,000 years ago. The Idrisid dynasty was established by Idris I in 788 and was subsequently ruled by a series of other independent dynasties, reaching its zenith as a regional power in the 11th and 12th centuries, under the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties, when ...
The first partially free Parliament's vote after 45-year-long Soviet domination ... of Romania founded; ... of the territory between Mauritania and Morocco. 568:
News media came to Morocco in 1860 through Spanish-language newspaper El Eco de Tetuan in Tetouan, which was founded shortly after the Treaty of Wad Ras. The Treaty of Madrid in 1880 allowed for the rise of two newspaper, al-Moghreb al-Aksa , printed in Spanish by G.T. Abrines , and the Times of Morocco , printed in English by Edward Meakin .
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.
Monument in memory of the 11 January 1944 proclamation in Salé, Morocco.. The Proclamation of Independence of Morocco (Arabic: وثيقة الاستقلال, French: Manifeste de l'Indépendance du Maroc), also translated as the Manifesto of Independence of Morocco or Proclamation of January 11, 1944, is a document in which Moroccan nationalists called for the independence of Morocco in its ...
Marrakesh was founded by Abu Bakr ibn Umar, ... King Mohammed VI vowed in 2012 to double the number of tourists, attracting 20 million a year to Morocco by 2020. ...