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Marrakech
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Marrakech or Marrakesh (Berber: Murakush, Arabic مراكش murrākuš), kent as the "Red Ceety", is the maist important umwhile imperial ceety in Morocco's history. The ceety o Marrakesh is the caipital o the mid-soothwastren economic region o Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, near the fuithills o the snaw-capped Atlas Muntains.
Marrakesh Meṛṛakec / ⵎⴻⵕⵕⴰⴽⴻⵛ / مراكش Marrakech | |
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Prefectur-level ceety | |
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Coordinates: 31°37′48″N 8°0′32″W | |
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Region | Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz |
Province | Marrakesh |
Established | 1062 C.E. |
Foondit bi | Abu Bakr ibn Umar |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor | Fatima Zahra Mansouri |
Elevation | 466 m (1,529 ft) |
Population (2012)[1] | |
• Prefectur-level ceety | 909,000 |
• Rank | 4th |
• Metro | 1,063,415 |
Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (WEST) |
Lik mony North African ceeties, the ceety o Marrakesh comprises baith an auld fortified ceety (the médina) an an adjacent modren ceety (cawed Gueliz) for a tot population o 1,070,838.[2] It is served bi Ménara Internaitional Airport (IATE code: RAK) an a rail link tae Casablanca an the north.[2]
Marrakech haes the lairgest traditional mercat (souk) in Morocco an an' a' haes ane o the busiest squares in Africae an the warld, Djemaa el Fna.[3] The square bustles wi acrobats, story-tellers, watter sellers, dancers an muisicians. Bi nicht fuid stalls open in the square turnin it intae a huge busy open-air restaurant.