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| Fez, history of the city |
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| The medina of Fez was raised in the crossroad of various destinations North-South and East-West. This strategic position enables the site to control the outlet of the corridor of Taza, a highly important passage between the Atlantic plains in the west and the rest of the Maghreb... |
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In 908, the son of Idris Ier found a new city on the left bank of the Fez wadi, face to the Andalusian district in |
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The city was surrounded by an enclosure bored of six gates and equipped with a mosque. Idriss I also built an enclosure, a mosque, a palace and a market.
In 1143, in the end of a nine month siege, Fez is occupied by the Almohades (1130-1269). Behind its ramparts, the city is organized like Marrakesh; it has its cult and worship places, trade, its water supply system, its corporations, its aristocracy...
With the Merinides that conquer the city in the middle of the Xlllth century, Fez becomes the capital of Morocco and lives its golden age. Their first great sovereign, Abou Youssef Yacoub (1258-1286) builds Fez Jdid (the New one) in 1276, immediately in the west of the city, strengthens it with a powerful enclosure, builds a great mosque, residential districts, palace (disappeared), gardens.
In the XlVth century, a Jewish district, the first Mellah of Morocco, came to associate with the new foundation. But the Merinides are known to be as builders of Medersas, these characteristic colleges different of size and decoration, competing of beauty and symmetry, organized around a patio with a basin in the centre. |
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