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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 Imperial Cities of Morocco are the four historical capital cities of Morocco: Fez, Marrakesh, Meknes and Rabat. [ 1 ] Rabat is the current capital of Morocco .
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 ...
Fes (/ f ɛ s /; Arabic: فاس, romanized: fās) or Fez (/ f ɛ z /) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fez-Meknes administrative region. It is one of the largest cities in Morocco , with a population of 1.256 million, according to the 2024 census . [ 2 ]
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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 ...
The Zawiya of Moulay Idris II is a zawiya (an Islamic shrine and religious complex, also spelled zaouia) in Fez, Morocco.It contains the tomb of Idris II (or Moulay Idris II when including his sharifian title), who ruled Morocco from 807 to 828 and is considered the main founder of the city of Fez.