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The later caliph Yaqub al-Mansur (ruled 1184–1199) embarked on a huge project to construct a new fortified imperial capital, called al-Mahdiyya or Ribat al-Fath, on the site of what is now the medina (old city) of Rabat, with new walls extending over a vast area beyond the old kasbah. [4]
View of the Kasbah of the Udayas from the city-facing side: the great gate is located uphill on the left. In 1150 or 1151, the Almohad ruler Abd al-Mu'min built a new kasbah (citadel) over the site of a former Almoravid ribat on the southwest shore of the Bou Regreg River, within which he included a palace and a mosque.
Kasbah of Sfax in Tunisia. A kasbah (/ ˈ k æ z b ɑː /, also US: / ˈ k ɑː z-/; Arabic: قصبة, romanized: qaṣaba, lit. 'fortress', Arabic pronunciation:, Maghrebi Arabic:), also spelled qasbah, qasba, qasaba, or casbah, is a fortress, most commonly the citadel or fortified quarter of a city.
Map of the Middle East between North Africa, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and Southern Asia Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) [note 1] is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
The orthogonal parallel lines were separated by one degree intervals, and the map was limited to Southwest Asia and Central Asia. The earliest surviving world maps based on a rectangular coordinate grid are attributed to al-Mustawfi in the 14th or 15th century (who used invervals of ten degrees for the lines), and to Hafiz-i Abru (died 1430).
Maps of the history of the Middle East (1 C, 2 P) E. Maps of Egypt (2 P) I. Maps of Israel (1 C, 4 P) P. Maps of the State of Palestine (1 C) This page was last ...
Wikipedia's (badly sourced, inaccurate) "Middle East" article should not govern the contents of this page. 07:41, 6 April 2021: 553 × 553 (328 KB) Rsk6400: Reverted to version as of 17:15, 17 March 2015 (UTC) - see COM:OW. Significantly changing this file causes problems, e.g. on en:Middle East: 16:16, 3 April 2021: 553 × 553 (406 KB) GPinkerton
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