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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Fez, Morocco This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
A street in the modern Ville Nouvelle ("New City") of Fez. After Morocco regained its independence in 1956 many of the trends begun under colonial rule continued and accelerated during the second half of the 20th century. [93] Much of Fez's bourgeois classes moved to the growing metropolises of Casablanca and the capital, Rabat.
The Jnan Sbil Garden, between Fes Jdid and Fes el-Bali, is the oldest surviving garden in Fez and was created as a royal park and garden in the 19th century by Sultan Moulay Hassan I. [14]: 296 [13]: 100 [162] Many bourgeois and aristocratic mansions also had private gardens, especially in the southwestern part of Fes el-Bali.
Founded by Idris I between 789 and 808, the town of Fez was the capital city several times: . under the Idrisid dynasty, from the beginning of the 9th century to 974;; under the Marinid dynasty, from 1244 to 1465;
From Fes, the Miknasa began pursuing the Idrisid family across Morocco. The family took refuge at the fortress of Hajar an-Nasr in northern Morocco, where the Miknasa besieged them. [ 45 ] Soon after, however, civil war broke out among the Miknasa when Musa switched allegiance to the Umayyads of Cordoba in 931 in an attempt to gain more ...
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Remains of Bab al-Amer in 1916 (right of the tree) Fes el-Jdid was founded as a fortified administrative city in 1276 by the Marinid sultan Abu Yusuf Ya'qub. [1] The city was built with a perimeter of double walls, which in some areas (e.g. to the east and west) ran together while in other areas (to the north and south) diverged from each other.
Fes el Bali (Arabic: فاس البالي, romanized: Fās al-Bālī, lit. 'Old Fes') is the oldest walled part of Fez, the second largest city of Morocco. Fes el Bali was founded as the capital of the Idrisid dynasty between 789 and 808 AD. [1] UNESCO listed Fes el Bali, along with Fes Jdid, as a World Heritage Site in 1981 under the name ...