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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 ...
Map of Morocco. The basic unit of local government in Morocco is the commune. [1] At the time of the 2014 population census, Morocco was divided into 1538 communes, 256 of which were classified as urban [2] and also called municipalities. [3]
Volubilis (Latin pronunciation: [wɔˈɫuːbɪlɪs]; Arabic: وليلي, romanized: walīlī; Berber languages: ⵡⵍⵉⵍⵉ, romanized: wlili) is a partly excavated Berber-Roman city in Morocco, situated near the city of Meknes, that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania, at least from the time of King Juba II. Before ...
Fez-Meknes (Arabic: فاس-مكناس, romanized: fās maknās) is among the twelve Regions of Morocco. It has a population of 4,236,892 (2014 census). [ 1 ] Its capital is Fez . [ 2 ]
The new city occupies a plateau on the edge of the Saïs plain. The latter stretches out to the west and south and is occupied largely by farmland. Roughly 15 km south of Fes el-Bali is the region's main airport, Fes-Saïs. Further south is the town of Sefrou, while the city of Meknes, the next largest city in the region, is located to the ...
Rabat was founded by the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur with the aim of serving as his capital, but the project was abandoned after he died and Marrakesh remained the capital city. In the 18th century, Rabat was designated an imperial city by the Alawi sultan Muhammad ibn Abdallah , who built the Dar al-Makhzen , although he did not designate ...
The city gate was completed in 1686 or 1687 during the reign of Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail who ruled between 1672 and 1727. [4] It was once the main entrance to the Jewish quarter or Mellah and the western entrance to the City of the Garden of Amber, Madinat Ar-Riad Al Anbari, [5] which housed the Oudaya's army and the members of the Ismail's court.
Meknès-Tafilalt (Arabic: مكناس تافيلالت (Meknes-Tafilelt)) was one of the sixteen former regions of Morocco that existed from 1997 to 2015. [1] It was situated in north-central Morocco, bordering Algeria. It covered an area of 79,210 km² and record a population of 2,316,865 in the 2014 census. [2] The capital was Meknes.