The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Meknes, Morocco.

Prior to 20th century

  • 40 CE - Romans in power in Volubilis.[1]
  • 217 CE - Caracallas Victory Arch erected (approximate date) in Volubilis.[1]
  • 285 CE - Volubilis "abandoned by the Roman military;" Berber Baqates subsequently rise to power.[1]
  • 10th century CE - Zenata Berber Miknasa settle in area (approximate date).[2]

20th century

21st century

  • 2003 - Aboubakr Belkora becomes mayor.[18]
  • 2004 - Population: 536,322.[2]
  • 2005 - Hassan Aourid becomes governor.[5]
  • 2007 - Wine festival held.[citation needed]
  • 2009 - Ahmed Hilal becomes mayor.
  • 2010 - 19 February: Collapse of minaret of Bab Berdieyinne Mosque; dozens of fatalities.
  • 2014 - Population: 685,408 (estimate).[19]
  • 2015
    • Abdallah Bouanou becomes mayor.[20]
    • City becomes part of the Fès-Meknès administrative region.

See also

References

  1. ^ Stanley 2008.
  2. ^ Bosworth 2007.
  3. ^ Aomar Boum & Thomas K. Park (2016). Historical Dictionary of Morocco. 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-6297-3.
  4. ^ "Médina de Meknès" (in French). Patrimoine matériel. Ministry of Culture (Morocco). Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  5. ^ Hsain Ilahiane (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6490-0.
  6. ^ "Timeline: Morocco". Discoverislamicart.org. Vienna: Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  7. ^ Britannica 1910.
  8. ^ Nekrouf, Younès (1 January 1987). Une amitié orageuse : Moulay Ismaïl et Louis XIV (in French). FeniXX. p. 262. ISBN 978-2-402-50699-1. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
  9. ^ Cressier, Patrice & Touri, Abdelaziz (2019). "Le long voyage des chapiteaux du Royal Golf de Dar EsSalam à Rabat. Utilisation et réutilisation d'un élément clef de l'architecture islamique d'Occident en époque moderne et contemporaine". Hespéris-Tamuda. LIV (1): 41–64.
  10. ^ "Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail". Archnet. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  11. ^ Marianne Barrucand, "Meknes", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 28 July 2017
  12. ^ Susan Gilson Miller (2013). "Chronology". History of Modern Morocco. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81070-8.
  13. ^ "Chambre de Commerce, d'Industrie et de Services de Meknès" (in French). Archived from the original on 19 October 2015.
  14. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. pp. 171–184.
  15. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
  16. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
  17. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2002. United Nations Statistics Division
  18. ^ "A Meknès, le PJD est aux commandes" (in French), Le Parisien, 7 September 2007
  19. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
  20. ^ "Meknès/Mairie Bouanou à la recherche d'une 'identité' pour sa ville" (in French), L'Économiste, 3 February 2016
This article incorporates information from the Arabic Wikipedia and French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English
  • John Windus (1725). Journey to Mequinez
  • "Mequinez", "Jewish Encyclopedia", Vol. 8, 1906, hdl:2027/mdp.49015002282243
  • Vol. 18. 1910. pp. 147–148.
  • "Miknās", "Encyclopaedia of Islam", 2nd ed., 1993
  • C. Edmund Bosworth (ed.) (2007). "Meknes". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 395+.
  • Bruce E. Stanley & Michael R.T. Dumper (eds.) (2008), "Meknes", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, US: ABC-CLIO, p. 248+, ISBN 9781576079195
  • "Meknès." Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Ed. Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Oxford University Press, 2010
in French
  • Octave Houdas (1885). "Monographie de Méquinez" (in French). Journal asiatique
  • Maurice de Périgny (1919). Au Maroc; Casablanca-Rabat-Meknes (in French). Paris P. Roger.
  • Laribe et al. (1922). "Meknès". Maroc pittoresque: Fès-Meknès-et-région: album de photographies (in French). Marseille. pp. 72–98.
  • Pierre Champion (1924). Tanger, Fés et Meknès (in French). Paris. OCLC 470064237
  • Marianne Barrucand (1985). Urbanisme princier en islam: Meknès et les villes royales islamiques post-médiévales (in French). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. ISBN 978-2705302375.
  • "Bibliographie de Meknes" (in French), 1988
  • Samuel Pickens (1995). Maroc: Les cités impériales: Fès, Marrakech, Meknès, Rabat-Salé (in French). Paris. ISBN 9782867700750.
  • Mehdi Nabti (2010). "Le mussem de Meknès: Le déclin d'une tradition spirituelle" (in French). L'Homme. 193 (193): 137–165. doi:10.4000/lhomme.24352. – via Revues.org
  • Élodie Valette & Patrick Dugué (2017). "L'urbanisation, facteur de développement ou d'exclusion de l'agriculture familiale en périphérie des villes: Le cas de la ville de Meknès, Maroc" (in French). lt=VertigO |VertigO (journal). 17. doi:10.4000/vertigo.18413. – via Revues.org.