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The shape and outline of certain neighborhood streets follow former palace walls or other structures no longer extant. The main street of the kasbah (Rue de la Kasbah), running roughly north–south between the mosque and the Derb Chtouka neighbourhood, corresponds to the original avenue that linked the two asaraq squares in the Almohad period ...
The Museum of Marrakech is a historic palace and museum located in the old center of Marrakesh, Morocco. In addition to its notable architecture , the museum's collection showcases various historic art objects and contemporary art from Morocco.
The Bahia Palace (Arabic: قصر الباهية) is a mid to late 19th-century palace in Marrakesh, Morocco.The palace was first begun by Si Musa, grand vizier under the Alawi sultan Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman, in the 1860s.
The Kasbah Mosque (Arabic: مسجد القصبة), also known as the Moulay al-Yazid Mosque, [a] is a historic mosque in Marrakesh, Morocco.It was originally built by the Almohad ruler Yaqub al-Mansur in 1185–1190 CE.
Terrasse was born in France in 1895. In 1921, he emigrated to the French protectorate of Morocco, where he taught first at the Collège Moulay Youssef. [1] In 1923 he became professor at the important Institut des Hautes Études Marocaines in Rabat, where he collaborated with French orientalist Henri Basset for a series of studies on Almohad mosques.
Although the city of Marrakesh was founded by the Almoravids in 1060, Jews settled 40 km away and there is no recorded Jewish presence in the city until 1232. After the Reconquista and expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, Sephardic Jews (known as the Megorashim) started to arrive in great numbers to Morocco, settling mostly in cities and mixing with the local Jewish population ...
Hotel Marrakech. As one of the biggest tourist cities in Africa, Marrakech has over 400 hotels. La Mamounia, also known as Hôtel La Mamounia, is a 5-star hotel in the Art Deco-Moroccan fusion style, built in 1925 by Henri Prost and A. Marchis. [103]
When the European empires began to abandon their colonial possessions in the MENA after World War II, with Britain leaving Palestine in 1947, news about the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the defeat of the Arab armies to the Jewish force had culminated into the anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada in solidarity with their Palestinian brethren, when Morocco was still a Franco-Spanish protectorate ...