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King Hassan II, on his way to Friday prayers in Marrakesh, 1967. Mohammed V's son Hassan II became King of Morocco on 3 March 1961. His rule saw significant political unrest, and the ruthless government response earned the period the name "the years of lead". Hassan took personal control of the government as prime minister and named a new cabinet.
The Portuguese Empire was founded when Prince Henry the Navigator led the conquest of Ceuta, which began the Portuguese presence in Morocco, lasting from 1415 to 1769. In 1549, the region fell to successive Arab dynasties claiming descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad : first the Saadi dynasty who ruled from 1549 to 1659, and then the Alawi ...
This is a list of rulers of Morocco since 789. The common and formal titles of these rulers has varied, depending on the time period. Since 1957, the designation King has been used.
Revolution of the King and the People; Modern ... This is a list of years in Morocco. ... William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Morocco". Dictionary of Chronology ...
1399: Benefitting from the anarchy within the Marinid kingdom, king Henry III of Castile arrives in Morocco, seizes Tetouan, massacres half of the population and reduces the rest to slavery. 1415: King John I of Portugal seizes Ceuta. This conquest marks the beginning of overseas European expansion. 1418: Abu Said Uthman besieges Ceuta but is ...
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.
In 985 [12] he returned to Morocco with Fatimid support, but that same year he was defeated by another Umayyad general sent by al-Mansur and then assassinated on the way to Cordoba. [7] This brought a final end to the Idrisid dynasty. The Umayyads kept control over northern Morocco until their caliphate's collapse in the early 11th century.
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 .