Aghmat
Town in Marrakech-Asfi, Morocco / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aghmat (Tashelhit: Aɣmat, Arabic: أغمات Āghmāt; pronounced locally Ughmat, Uɣmat) was an important commercial medieval Berber town in Morocco. It is today an archaeological site known as "Joumâa Aghmat".
Aghmat
Aɣmat أغمات | |
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Town | |
Aghmat / Aɣmat | |
Coordinates: 31°25′21″N 7°48′4″W | |
Country | Morocco |
Region | Marrakech-Asfi |
Province | Al Haouz |
Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (WEST) |
The city is located approximately 30 km south-east of Marrakech on the Ourika road. The initial "a" of the name may be unvocalized, and the name may sometimes be spelled "Ghmat", "Ghmate" or even the French-style "Rhmate" (as it appears in the Michelin Guide).
According to a Berber legend, Aghmat was populated by Christian Berbers when it was conquered in 683 by the Muslim forces of Uqba ibn Nafi, a general of the Umayyad Caliphate in Syria.[1] However, this story first surfaces almost 700 years after that date, and many historians give it no credibility.[2] It is directly contradicted by one of the earliest Persian historians, al-Baladhuri.[3] who states that Musa bin Nusair conquered the Sous and erected the mosque at Aghmāt.