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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),
historically Sijilmasa, is a
region of Morocco,
centered on its
largest oasis.
There are many
speculations regarding...
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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...
- 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...
- Mdoura, is a horseshoe-shaped
geological formation ("erosion cirque") near
Sijilmasa, Morocco. In the 11th
century it was
developed into a
fortress with a...
- 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...
- 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...
- to hold
political power, they were
until then the
spiritual leaders of
Sijilmasa. In 1633 Sidi Mohammed's
father Moulay Sharif called his good
friend Bou...
- Caliphate.
After the conquest,
Abdallah al-Mahdi
Billah was
retrieved from
Sijilmasa and then
accepted as the Imam of the movement,
becoming the
first Caliph...
