This articles contains Some precious historical facts about the capital of Morocco.
We found the first traces of man in the Capital of Morocco, on the current site of Chellah the eighth century BC. It was the Romans who gave the name instead, which is a corruption of the Latin word Sala, first name given to the river Bouregreg separating the cities of Rabat and Salé. They set up is a river port, which disappeared at the end of the Roman Empire.
Berber tribes settled longer below morocco capital, on both sides of Bouregreg. On the right bank of the river on the rocky outcrop, is built by monks sodats in the tenth century, a ribat (fortified monastery) who gave his name to the city. It is from these that ribats Islamized Almohad Berber tribes of the High Atlas lead their holy war. They help to strengthen the Kasbah and make an important stronghold.
We are then at the end of the twelfth century and Yacoub El Mansour, Almohad sovereign power, wants Rabat the Atlantic Alexandria and the Capital of Morocco. He raises the Hassan Tower in the image of the Koutoubia of Marrakech and the Giralda in Seville. He strengthens the kasbah, surrounds two huge walls with five gates.
The prestigious sovereign award definitely the name to the city of Rabat El Fath: Ribat Victory.
But Yacoub El Mansour died without completing his work and the city loses its luster. The largest mosque in the world, the Hassan Tower, is never completed and gradually fall into ruin. The end of the Almohad dynasty begin the decline of Rabat.
The Kasbah remain habited, but will gradually lose its original purpose. It will attract more foreign wildlife that increasingly became important.
Among them, the so-called Andalusian, Moorish past expelled from Spain in the seventeenth century. These highly Europeanized Arabs have forgotten their ancestral customs. To feel secure, they built a wall that bisects the Medina: "the wall of the Andalusians.
Morocco' Capital gradually becomes a den of robbers and pirates, head of traffic of all kinds. Over the centuries, the city loses its appeal, and should the existence of his royal palace to the insecurity of the imperial road Fez-Marrakesh, Rabat then constituting the sovereign a fallback.
In 1912, when the introduction of the French protectorate, the Resident General Lyautey seduced by the city as much as by its climate and its strategic position facing the Atlantic, requires the Sultan Moulay Youssef leaving Fez to Rabat the capital city of Morocco.
The French occupiers modernize the city while retaining its Moorish character. In 1956, at the end of the protectorate, Mohamed V Rabat maintains as the capital city of Morocco . His son Hassan II in 1961, and his grand-son Mohamed VI in 1999, confirm this choice, while alternating stays in the various palaces of the Kingdom, according to the tradition of the Moroccan king, across Morocco.
That is how a small town became the capital of Morocco,one of the largest countries in Africa. Rabat has now become the second city of the country (one million inhabitants with Savory across the Bouregreg), seat of government, parliament, home of the royal authority.
It takes advantage of its status as Morocco's Capital: it is better maintained, the more flowery and most opulent of Morocco. But it is an authentic city of Morocco, the opposite of a soulless city. To convince you, browse these pages and you will find that Rabat is a city full of life, a true representative city of Morocco.
We are then at the end of the twelfth century and Yacoub El Mansour, Almohad sovereign power, wants Rabat the Atlantic Alexandria and the Capital of Morocco. He raises the Hassan Tower in the image of the Koutoubia of Marrakech and the Giralda in Seville. He strengthens the kasbah, surrounds two huge walls with five gates.
The prestigious sovereign award definitely the name to the city of Rabat El Fath: Ribat Victory.
But Yacoub El Mansour died without completing his work and the city loses its luster. The largest mosque in the world, the Hassan Tower, is never completed and gradually fall into ruin. The end of the Almohad dynasty begin the decline of Rabat.
The Kasbah remain habited, but will gradually lose its original purpose. It will attract more foreign wildlife that increasingly became important.
Among them, the so-called Andalusian, Moorish past expelled from Spain in the seventeenth century. These highly Europeanized Arabs have forgotten their ancestral customs. To feel secure, they built a wall that bisects the Medina: "the wall of the Andalusians.
Morocco' Capital gradually becomes a den of robbers and pirates, head of traffic of all kinds. Over the centuries, the city loses its appeal, and should the existence of his royal palace to the insecurity of the imperial road Fez-Marrakesh, Rabat then constituting the sovereign a fallback.
In 1912, when the introduction of the French protectorate, the Resident General Lyautey seduced by the city as much as by its climate and its strategic position facing the Atlantic, requires the Sultan Moulay Youssef leaving Fez to Rabat the capital city of Morocco.
The French occupiers modernize the city while retaining its Moorish character. In 1956, at the end of the protectorate, Mohamed V Rabat maintains as the capital city of Morocco . His son Hassan II in 1961, and his grand-son Mohamed VI in 1999, confirm this choice, while alternating stays in the various palaces of the Kingdom, according to the tradition of the Moroccan king, across Morocco.
That is how a small town became the capital of Morocco,one of the largest countries in Africa. Rabat has now become the second city of the country (one million inhabitants with Savory across the Bouregreg), seat of government, parliament, home of the royal authority.
It takes advantage of its status as Morocco's Capital: it is better maintained, the more flowery and most opulent of Morocco. But it is an authentic city of Morocco, the opposite of a soulless city. To convince you, browse these pages and you will find that Rabat is a city full of life, a true representative city of Morocco.
Really informative blog, this will be helpful for the traveler who are going to visit Morocco's capital first time. Great thanks, and keep sharing post like this.
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