Timeline of Meknes

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

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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]
  • 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 Mohamed ben Issa.[2]
  • 1640 - Dila 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]
  • 1703 - Mulay Ismail Mausoleum construction begins.
  • 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 (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 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.[7]
  • 1937 - Anti-French unrest.[8][2]
  • 1942 - École nationale d'agriculture de Meknès (school) founded.
  • 1947 - Meknes Chamber of Commerce and Industry founded.[9]
  • 1951 - Population: 140,380.[10]
  • 1960 - Population: 175,943.[11]
  • 1962
  • 1967 - June: Ethnic unrest.[8]
  • 1973 - Population: 244,520.[12]
  • 1982 - Faculté des sciences de Meknès (college) established.
  • 1989 - Moulay Ismail University founded.
  • 1994 - Population: 443,214.[13]
  • 1996 - City historic centre designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • 1997 - École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers (school) established.

21st century

View of Meknes, 2014
  • 2003 - Aboubakr Belkora becomes mayor.[14]
  • 2004 - Population: 536,322.[2]
  • 2005 - Hassan Aourid becomes governor.[5]
  • 2007 - Wine festival held.
  • 2009 - Ahmed Hilal becomes mayor.
  • 2010 - 19 February: Collapse of minaret of Bab Berdieyinne Mosque; dozens of fatalities.
  • 2014 - Population: 685,408 (estimate).[15]
  • 2015
    • Abdallah Bouanou becomes mayor.[16]
    • City becomes part of the Fès-Meknès administrative region.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Stanley 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Bosworth 2007.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Aomar Boum; Thomas K. Park (2016). Historical Dictionary of Morocco (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-6297-3.
  4. 1 2 3 "Médina de Meknès". Patrimoine matériel (in French). Ministry of Culture (Morocco). Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  5. 1 2 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. ↑ Marianne Barrucand, "Meknes", Oxford Art Online, (Subscription required (help)) . Retrieved 28 July 2017
  8. 1 2 Susan Gilson Miller (2013). "Chronology". History of Modern Morocco. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81070-8.
  9. ↑ "Chambre de Commerce, d'Industrie et de Services de Meknès" (in French). Archived from the original on 19 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "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.
  11. ↑ "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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2002. United Nations Statistics Division.
  14. ↑ "A Meknès, le PJD est aux commandes", Le Parisien (in French), France, 7 September 2007
  15. ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
  16. ↑ "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, 8, New York, 1906
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  • "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
  • O. Houdas (1885). "Monographie de Méquinez". Journal asiatique (in French).
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  • 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 2705302379.
  • Bibliographie de Meknes (in French), 1988
  • Samuel Pickens (1995). Maroc: Les cités impériales: Fès, Marrakech, Meknès, Rabat-Salé (in French). Paris. ISBN 9782867700750.
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  • 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". VertigO (in French). Montreal. 17. doi:10.4000/vertigo.18413 – via Revues.org.
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