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unusual facts about Marrakech



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Aghmat

Subsequent actions became one of the major irritants between Boujane's superior, the powerful Pasha of Marrakech T'hami El Glaoui, and the King of Morocco Mohammed V, which eventually led to the king's brief overthrow.

Fatima-Zahra Mansouri

Fatima Zahra Mansouri was born in 1976 into a family from Ocre, the daughter of Abderrahman Mansouri, who was pasha (deputy governor) of Marrakech for eight years.

Kingdom of Sus

Traditionally, under the Alaouite dynasty, the Kingdom of Sus was one of the four "States of the King of Morocco", along with the Kingdom of Marrakech, the Kingdom of Fez and the Kingdom of Tafilalet.

Meriem Wangari

She has won half marathons in Bristol, Bath, Lille, Boulogne-Billancourt, as well as Gothenburg and Marrakech.

Moulay Brahim

He was the grandson of Abdallah ben Houssein al-Hassani, who was the founder of the zawiya of Tameslouht, one of the greatest Zawiyyas in the region of Marrakech (founded ca. 1525).

Seville Cathedral

The Giralda is the former minaret of the mosque that stood on the site under Muslim rule, and was built to resemble the minaret of the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech, Morocco.

Société Nationale des Autoroutes du Maroc

Marrakech-Agadir expressway- 223 km road built between 2006 and 2010 Total actual investment: 6025 MDH

Street hierarchy

A clearer record of a stricter hierarchical order of streets appears in surviving and functioning Arabic-Islamic cities that originate in the late first millennium AD such as the Medina of Tunis, Marrakech, Fez and Damascus.

Thami El Glaoui

He visited the European capitals often, while his visitors at Marrakech included Winston Churchill, Colette, Maurice Ravel, Charlie Chaplin.


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