Marrakech city
Marrakech is the third city in terms of area in the Kingdom of Morocco. The area of the city of Marrakesh is estimated at about 230 square kilometers, and the population is estimated at approximately 900 thousand people in this city. The climate in the city of Marrakech is characterized as a semi-arid climate, and it is very hot in the summer, but in the winter the climate is mild.
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The Moroccan city of Marrakesh is located to the southwest of the city of Rabat, the Moroccan capital, where it is approximately 330 km away from Rabat. As for the city of Tangier, this city is approximately 580 km from the southwestern side of it, and it is located approximately 240 km southwest of the Moroccan city of Casablanca. As for the distance from Beni Mellal, it is approximately 200 km. Marrakech is approximately 150 km from Agadir to the northwest, while it is approximately 180 km from Essaouira. As for the Eureka River, the city is approximately 30 km to the south.
The reason for naming the city of Marrakech
The reason for naming the city is unknown or confirmed to this day. There are some sayings that say that the reason for naming this city by this name goes back to Mar and Kash, and there are those who attribute it to Aksh, who is one of the ancient gods. The third explanation for the reason for naming it is that it is originally from Marrakech. Which means doom.
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The city of Marrakesh dates back to the year 1070 AD, when it was founded by the Almoravid state, and the Almoravid state was founded by Berber groups that came from the desert. This city developed in a very large way when the Almoravid leader Yusuf bin Tashfin - may God Almighty have mercy on him - took over the rule of the city. After the demise of the Almoravid state, and the Almohads taking over the rule, they made the city of Marrakesh the capital of the Almohad state, and the Almohads added many different, varied and beautiful things to this state of monuments and historical monuments that all the inhabitants of the city boast of to this day, after the Almohads came the Marinids to power, and it was That was in the year 1269 AD, but the Marinids did not take Marrakech as the capital of their state, as the Almohads did, but made Fez the capital. When the Saadians came to power in the year 1589 AD, Marrakesh returned as the capital of the state, but during the Alawite period, the Alawite rulers tried to restore Marrakesh to the importance it had in the past and develop it more and more.
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