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Sijilmasa (Arabic: سجلماسة; also
transliterated Sijilm****a, Sidjilmasa, Sidjilm****a and Sigilm****a) was a
medieval Moroccan city and
trade entrepôt at...
- from
Tlemcen to the
Chelif bend and Algiers, and at its
zenith reached Sijilmasa and the
Moulouya River in the west, Tuat to the
south and the Soummam...
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Tafilalt or
Tafilet (Arabic: تافيلالت, romanized: Tāfīlālt),
historically Sijilmasa, is a
region of Morocco,
centered on its
largest oasis.
There are many...
- Midrār) was a
Berber dynasty that
ruled the
Sijilmasa region in
Morocco from
their capital of
Sijilmasa,
starting in the late 8th or
early 9th century...
- 739, the
Berbers formed other independent states such as the
Miknasa of
Sijilmasa and the Barghawata. The
founder of the
Idrisid dynasty and the great-grandson...
- Salamiya, and flee
first to Ramla, then
Fustat in Egypt, and
finally Sijilmasa in what is now Morocco.
There he remained,
living as a merchant, until...
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oasis region in the Ziz
Valley of
eastern Morocco; its
capital city is
Sijilmasa,
which is, historically, an
important terminus of the trans-Saharan trade...
- journey. In the mid-14th
century CE, Ibn
Battuta crossed the
desert from
Sijilmasa via the salt
mines at
Taghaza to the
oasis of Oualata. A
guide was sent...
- in Egypt,
before turning west and
making for the
remote oasis town of
Sijilmasa in what is now Morocco.
While there, the Isma'ili
missionary (da'i) Abu...
- an
oasis region in the Ziz
Valley in
eastern Morocco and the site of
Sijilmasa,
historically an
important terminus of the trans-Saharan
trade routes...
