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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.
His successors, Hassan II and Mohammed VI (the current reigning monarch), have continued the dynasty's rule under the same title. Today, the Moroccan government is officially a constitutional monarchy , [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] but the king retains strong authoritarian power over the state and public affairs, despite some political reforms in recent ...
The kings of Morocco are members of the Alawi dynasty. It is one of the country's most powerful offices. Mohammed VI (Sidi Mohammed bin Hassan al-Alawi) is the current king of Morocco, having ascended the throne on 23 July 1999, following the death of his father, Hassan II. [1]
By the early 1660s the republic was embroiled in civil war with the zawiya, and eventually Sultan Al-Rashid of Morocco of the Alawi dynasty, which still rules Morocco into the 21st century, seized Rabat and Salé, ending its independence.
Morocco, since the rule of the Saadi dynasty, was sometimes referred to as the Sharifian Sultanate as a reference to the ruling dynasty's claim to noble ancestry. [8] This was rendered in French as l'Empire chérifien (Arabic: الإيالة الشريفة; lit. ' the Sharifian empire ') according to the Treaty of Fes. [9]
Mohammed VI (Arabic: محمد السادس, romanized: Muḥammad as-sādis; born 21 August 1963) [1] is King of Morocco.A member of the Alawi dynasty, he acceded to the throne on 23 July 1999, upon the death of his father, King Hassan II.
The 'Alawi dynasty, which rules the country to this day, seized power in 1631, and over the next two centuries expanded diplomatic and commercial relations with the Western world. Morocco's strategic location near the mouth of the Mediterranean drew renewed European interest; in 1912, France and Spain divided the country into respective ...
Rabat is the current capital of Morocco. Fez ... under the Alawi dynasty, from 1666 to 1672 and from 1727 to 1912. Marrakesh. View of Marrakesh in 2004 ...