| History & Patrimony |
| Taroudant, history of the city |
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| Although known since the High Middle Ages, Taroudant will acquire all its importance only with the Almoravides and Almohades dynasties which will make of it a military base so to control the Sous region, ensuring meanwhile the trade caravans coming from the Sahara. |
Taroudant owes its glare and its development to the Saadian dynasty. And it is the sovereign Mohamed Al sheik that carried out the restoration of the fallen capital and ordered the construction of the great mosque, the Medersa and the sultanian Kasbah and undertook the construction of the enclosure. Following the achievement of this work the city took the name of its renovator "Al-Mohammadia".
The commercial role of Taroudant was very significant at that time since it constituted a vital |
stage in the trade that connected Morocco to Sudan. It is through the Sous region that the Saharan products transited towards Agadir and then to Europe.
On the military level, the city constituted for the Saadians an important headquarter in their fight against the Portuguese presence on the Moroccan Atlantic littoral.
The prosperity of Taroudant will be maintained throughout the XVIth century. After the Saadians and with the absence of a powerful central authority, the city was going to slip from the grab of the central authority but will end up passing under the aegis of the Alaouites sultan Moulay Rachid in 1669-1670., then the sultan Moulay Ismaïl in 1687. |
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