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Moulay Abderrahmane (Arabic: عبد الرحمان) was sultan of Morocco from 1822 to 1859. He was a member of the Alaouite dynasty. Arabic ( or just ), is the largest member of the family of Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. ...
Sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings. ...
1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
1859 (MDCCCLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ...
The Alaouite Dynasty is the name of the current Moroccan royal family. ...
Biography
He was born in 1778. His reign began at the start of the French occupation of Algeria. Morocco supported the Algerian resistance movement led by the Kabylian hero Emir Abdelkader during this period. A resistance movement is a group or collection of individual groups, dedicated to fighting an invader in an occupied country through either the use of physical force, or nonviolence. ...
`Abd al-Qādir al-Jazāirī. `Abd al-Qādir al-Jazāirī (6 September 1808 - 26 May 1883) was an Algerian military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion in the mid-nineteenth century, for which he is seen as...
In 1856, Moulay Abderrahmane established the souk of Zraqten on the north side of the High Atlas, adding to territory in southern Morocco controlled by the Glaouis, who were caids ruling various southern areas from the 1700's until Moroccan independence in 1956, after originally settling in Telouet to establish a souk. They would tax caravans travelling from the Sahara and Tafilalt regions as well as taxing goods sold locally. 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
The souq in Marrakech, Morocco A souk (سوق, also sook, souq, or suq) is a commercial quarter in an Arab city. ...
Map showing the location of the Atlas Mountains (colored red) across North Africa The Atlas Mountains (Arabic: ‎) are a mountain range in northwest Africa extending about 2,400 km (1,500 miles) through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and including The Rock of Gibraltar. ...
Computer-aided industrial design (CAID) is a subset of computer_aided design (CAD) that includes software that directly helps in product development. ...
Events January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar. ...
Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Telouet is a Kasbah along the former route of the karavans from the Sahara over the Atlas mountains to Marrakesh. ...
Tafilalt or Tafilet is the most important oasis of the Moroccan Sahara, ten days journey south of Fez, across the Atlas. ...
In the walled desert city of Smara, the kasbah "Citadel of Liberty" (established in 1887 by Cheikh Ma El Aïnin) resisted attacks against Moroccan Sahara tribes by many invaders, including Moulay Abderrahmane. It was attacked in 1913 by the French and also occupied by the Spanish for a day. Smara, also Semara, is a Sahrawi city (50,000 in 1999) in the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. ...
A few well preserved Kasbahs in Aït Benhaddou, Morocco The kasbah is a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city. ...
The Agdal Gardens, a two-square-mile irrigated garden offering the shade of hundreds of fruit trees amidst the hot desert lands, had been established by the Almoravids in the 12th century and enlarged several times in the days of the Saadians. It was revamped and encircled by ramparts under Moulay Abderrahmane's reign. High-altitude aerial view of irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara ( ) Irrigation is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops or plants. ...
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. ...
A fruit tree is a tree bearing fruit — the structures formed by the ripened ovary of a flower containing one or more seeds. ...
Erg Chebbi, Morocco In geography, a desert is a landscape form or region that receives very little precipitation. ...
Almoravides (From Arabic المرابطون sing. ...
(11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...
Ramparts is a radical squatted social centre in the Whitechapel area of East London. ...
Abderrahmane was succeeded by Mohammed IV of Morocco. Mohammed IV was Sultan of Morocco from 1859 to 1873, and was a member of the Alaouite Dynasty. ...
See also This is a partial list of Kings of Morocco. ...
The Capsian culture brought Morocco into the Neolithic about 8000 BC, in a time when the Maghreb was less arid than it is today. ...
Maghnia (Arabic: ‎) (formerly Marnia) is a town in the wilaya (province) of Tlemcen, northwestern Algeria, near the border with Morocco. ...
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