Timeline of Meknes
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Meknes, Morocco.
Prior to 20th century
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- 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]
- 1140/1141 - Siege of Meknes by forces of Abd al-Mu'min begins (approximate date).[2]
- 1150 - Siege of Meknes ends; Almohads sack town.[2]
- 1170s - Al-Najjarin mosque minaret built.[2]
- 1236/1237 - Marinids occupy Meknes.[2]
- 1245/1246 - Marinid governor killed.[2]
- 13th century: "Aqueduct, several bridges, a kasbah, mosques" and madrasas ('Attaririn, Filala, Jadida) built.[1][3]
- 1345 - Bou Inania Madrasa (Meknes) (school) built (approximate date).[4]
- 15th century: Maraboutic zawiya established.[3]
- 1526 - Death of religious leader Mohammed al-Hadi ben Issa.[2]
- 1640 - Dila [fr] in power.[5]
- 1672 - "Mulay Ismail makes Meknes the capital of the kingdom and starts work on his royal fortress complete with palaces, granaries, lakes and stables."[6][7]
- 1693 - The Franciscans open a mission and hospital after having provided spiritual care for Christian captives in Meknes since 1672. Moulay Ismail grants them protection under a dahir in 1698.[8]
- 1703 - Mulay Ismail Mausoleum construction begins.[9][10]
- 1709 - Bab Berdieyinne Mosque completed.[7]
- 1727 - Death of Mulay Ismail.
- 1732/1733 - Madinat al-Riyad demolished.[3]
- 1755 - Earthquake.[3]
- 1832 - French artist Delacroix visits Meknes.[1]
- 1882 - Palais Dar Jamaï [fr] (palace) construction begins.[4]
- 1889 - Bab Dar al-Makhzen (gate) built.[2](fr)
20th century
- 1902 - Population: 20,000 (estimate).[2]
- 1911 - French military under Moinier [fr] take Meknes during the French conquest of Morocco.[2]
- 1913 - Dar El Bachaouate built.[4]
- 1914 - École française de Meknès (school) organized.
- 1918 - Military school founded.
- 1926 - Dar Jamai museum established.[11]
- 1937 - Anti-French unrest.[12][2]
- 1942 - École nationale d'agriculture de Meknès [fr] (school) founded.
- 1947 - Meknes Chamber of Commerce and Industry [fr] founded.[13]
- 1951 - Population: 140,380.[14]
- 1960 - Population: 175,943.[15]
- 1962
- Stade d'Honneur (stadium) opens.
- COD Meknès (football club) formed.
- 1967 - June: Ethnic unrest.[12]
- 1973 - Population: 244,520.[16]
- 1982 - Faculté des sciences de Meknès [fr] (college) established.[citation needed]
- 1989 - Moulay Ismail University founded.
- 1994 - Population: 443,214.[17]
- 1996 - City historic centre designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- 1997 - École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers [fr] (school) established.
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 [fr] 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
- Meknes history (fr)
- Timelines of other cities in Morocco: Casablanca, Fes, Marrakesh, Rabat, Salé [fr], Tangier
- Timeline of Morocco [fr]
References
- ^ a b c d e Stanley 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Bosworth 2007.
- ^ a b c d Aomar Boum; Thomas K. Park (2016). Historical Dictionary of Morocco (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-6297-3.
- ^ a b c "Médina de Meknès". Patrimoine matériel (in French). Ministry of Culture (Morocco). Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ^ a b Hsain Ilahiane (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6490-0.
- ^ "Timeline: Morocco". Discoverislamicart.org. Vienna: Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ^ a b Britannica 1910.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail". Archnet. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ Marianne Barrucand, "Meknes", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 28 July 2017
- ^ a b Susan Gilson Miller (2013). "Chronology". History of Modern Morocco. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81070-8.
- ^ "Chambre de Commerce, d'Industrie et de Services de Meknès" (in French). Archived from the original on 19 October 2015.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2002. United Nations Statistics Division.
- ^ "A Meknès, le PJD est aux commandes", Le Parisien (in French), France, 7 September 2007
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
- ^ "Meknès/Mairie Bouanou à la recherche d'une 'identité' pour sa ville", L'Économiste (in French), Casablanca, 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, New York, 1906, hdl:2027/mdp.49015002282243
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Mequinez" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 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 [in French] (1885). "Monographie de Méquinez". Journal asiatique (in French).
- Maurice de Périgny [in French] (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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Pierre Champion [in French] (1924). Tanger, Fés et Meknès (in French). Paris. OCLC 470064237.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Mehdi Nabti [in French] (2010). "Le mussem de Meknès: Le déclin d'une tradition spirituelle". L'Homme (in French). 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". lt=VertigO |VertigO (journal) (in French). 17. doi:10.4000/vertigo.18413 – via Revues.org.
External links
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- "(Meknes)" – via Europeana. (Images, etc.)
- "(Meknes)" – via Digital Public Library of America. (Images, etc.)
- "(Meknès)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
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