The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . - nomeans a busy look, and though of the regulation width—or rather narrowness —they are seldom crowded likethose of Fez, or even of Marrakesh or the ports. Inshort, its glories, such as they were, have departed, andnothing remains sa\e decay and CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH IMlKKIAL CITIES —3 MARRAKESH (MOROCCO CITY) MARRAKKSII* the Red! What a picture thename conjures up! Near the edge of the greatred plain—lilad el Ilanird—of Central Morocco, north ofthe principal Great Atlas grouj), Yusef bin 1 ashfin builthim a city nine hundred years a
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . - nomeans a busy look, and though of the regulation width—or rather narrowness —they are seldom crowded likethose of Fez, or even of Marrakesh or the ports. Inshort, its glories, such as they were, have departed, andnothing remains sa\e decay and CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH IMlKKIAL CITIES —3 MARRAKESH (MOROCCO CITY) MARRAKKSII* the Red! What a picture thename conjures up! Near the edge of the greatred plain—lilad el Ilanird—of Central Morocco, north ofthe principal Great Atlas grouj), Yusef bin 1 ashfin builthim a city nine hundred years ago. f Histo-rians talk of Hocanum Ilemerum, a Romanstation, as having existed near here, perhaps on thespot, but who knows? Traces there certainly are not,and the native story runs that in 1062 Yusef purchasedthe virgin soil for his camp, erecting thereon a townwhich All III., his son, enclosed with a wall in little remains of those walls, for many havebeen the sieges through which the Red City has passed,and its circumvallation has never been more substantialthan hard-rammed mud concrete, dug close by. X ?? There is no record as to the origin of this word, but the ingeniousLouis Rinn derives it from ar or «; :z: sons, and the name Kush, withan M f Us imniediate
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