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17 unusual facts about Fès-Boulemane


Ait Bazza

Ait Bazza is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Ait El Mane

Ait El Mane is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Almis Marmoucha

Almis Marmoucha is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

El Mers

El Mers is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

El Orjane

El Orjane is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Enjil, Morocco

Enjil is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Ermila

Ermila is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Fritissa

Fritissa is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Ksabi Moulouya

Ksabi Moulouya is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Ouizeght

Ouizeght is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Oulad Ali Youssef

Oulad Ali Youssef is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Ribate El Kheir

Ribate El Kheir, formerly called Ahermoumou, is a town in Sefrou Province, Fès-Boulemane, Morocco.

Serghina

Serghina is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Sidi Boutayeb

Sidi Boutayeb is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Skoura M'Daz

Skoura M'Daz is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Talzemt

Talzemt is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Tissaf

Tissaf is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.


Ali Abu Hassun

Ahmad came back after two years, and was able to rule from 1547 and 1549, until 1549 when Fez and then Tlemcen were conquered by his southern Saadian rivals under their leader Mohammed ash-Sheikh.

Bou Inania Madrasa

The madrasa became one of the most important religious institutions of Fes and Morocco, and gained the status of Grand Mosque.

Charles Euan-Smith

In 1892 he travelled to Fez, the capital, in the hope of concluding a commercial treaty, and an agreement to end slavery.

Dar El Menia

Dar El Menia is a Riad or Dar, a traditional Moroccan house built around a central courtyard and lies in the heart of Fez (Fes) Medina, former imperial capital of Morocco and the world’s largest medina.

Ferroplasma acidiphilum

F. acidophilum is generally found in acidic mine tailings, primarily those containing pyrite (FeS2).

Françoise Atlan

Welcomed with equal enthusiasm in Morocco (Fes, Rabat, Casablanca in 1994), in Switzerland (Montreux, Yverdon-les-Bains in 1993) and in France (Abbaye du Thoronet in 1993 for the Chants Sacrés de la Méditerranée, and in Arsenal de Metz for the Festival Transméditerranéen in 1994), and receiving warm applauses in Belgrade, Tokyo and Kyoto, she took part in the recording of the album Borboréo by the guitarist Juan Carmona.

Historic Monuments and Sites of Morocco

A further ninety-eight monuments and buildings have been inscribed, in Casablanca (49), El Haouz (1), Fes (1), Kenitra (19), Larache (6), Rabat (2), and Tangiers (20).

Irrational number

Al-Hassār, a Moroccan mathematician from Fez specializing in Islamic inheritance jurisprudence during the 12th century, first mentions the use of a fractional bar, where numerators and denominators are separated by a horizontal bar.

Kingdom of Tlemcen

Under Yaghmurasen's leadership, and later under Abu Hammu II (1359-89), the kingdom pursued an expansionary policy, pushing towards Fez in the west and into the Chelif valley and Béjaïa in the east.

Leo Ferrari

In Ferrari's writings in support of the FES and the Flat Earth model he attributed everything from gender to racial inequality on the globularist and the Spherical Earth model.

Living Costs and Food Survey

Anonymised microdata from the Living Costs and Food Survey (LCF), the Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS) and the Family Expenditure Survey (FES) are available from the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), a service of the UK Data Archive.

Luis del Mármol Carvajal

This may explain their settlements and affinity with the Merinid and after the Wattasids dynasty, (وطاسيون waṭāsīyūn), ruling Fez, until, after 1554, the Saadi´s rulers, (Arabic: سعديون), from Tagmadert, at the Draa river valley, near Tidzi, near Zagora, conquered the town.

Marinid dynasty

1276: Founding of Fes Jdid ("New Fes"), a new city near Fes, which comes to be considered a new district of Fes, in contrast to Fes el Bali ("Old Fes").

Middle Atlas

Bordered by the rich Plaine du Saïs and the cities of Fes, Meknes and Beni Mellal, the mountainous reaches of the Middle Atlas are the stronghold of Berber tribes, speaking Tamazight and living at very low population densities.

Nadia Lalami

At the 2011 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem in Fes, she upset the first seed and World number 24 Aravane Rezaï in the second round, becoming the first Moroccan player to reach the quarter-finals of a WTA tournament.

Rawd al-Qirtas

A consequence of this is some uncertainty about the author, who is given in some versions as Ibn Abi Zar of Fes, and by some as Salih ibn Abd al-Halim of Granada.

Riffian people

There are also speakers of Riffian in Morocco outside the Rif, among significant communities in Tangiers, Tetouan, Oujda, Larache and Fes.

Sandy McCutcheon

He spends time each year in the city of Fes in Morocco where he owns a house with his third wife, the photographer Suzanna Clarke.

Sharif

The children of the Idrisid dynasty lives mainly in the North of Morocco: Casablanca, Fès, Ouazzane, Tanger, Taza, Rabat, Salé, Oujda, Meknès, Tétouan, Chefchaouen and Moulay Idriss Zerhoun.

Société Nationale des Autoroutes du Maroc

Fes-Oujda expressway - 320 km road built between 2007 and 2011 Total actual investment: 10800 MDH

Souleymane Demba

On October 4, 2009, Demba was chosen with the start team for the first time in Fez against Widad Fez, he played all the match which was ended with a draw between the two teams.

The Famous Entrepreneurs Series

FES has also featured entrepreneurs and authors C.K. Prahalad, author of "Competing for the Future," Michael Treacy, author of "The Discipline of Market Leaders," and Rod Beckstrom, author of "The Starfish and the Spider”.

Yusuf ibn Tashfin

Yusuf was an effective general and administrator, as evidenced by his ability to organize and maintain the loyalty of the hardened desert warriors and the territory of Abu Bakr, as well as his ability to expand the empire, crossing the Atlas Mountains onto the plains of Morocco, reaching the Mediterranean and capturing Fez in 1075, Tangier in 1079, Tlemcen in 1080, and Ceuta in 1083, as well as Algiers, Ténès and Oran in 1082-83.