Timeline of Fez

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

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Prior to 20th century

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20th century
  • 1912
    • March: Morocco becomes a French protectorate, per Treaty of Fez.[1]
    • April: 1912 Fez riots.[1]
    • Moroccan capital relocated from Fez to Rabat.
  • 1913 – Bab Boujeloud (gate) refurbished.[3]
  • 1916 – Ville Nouvelle founded.[1]
  • 1917 – Kissariyya market fire.[6]
  • 1920 – Public library opens.[7]
  • 1931 - Future billionaire Othman Benjelloun born in Fez.
  • 1940- student music association orchestra at fez as now music Institute in fez has founded there. (First called fez youth orchestra)
  • 1942 – Cinema Rex opens.[8]
  • 1946 – Maghreb Association Sportive de Fez football club formed.
  • 1948 – Widad Fez football club formed.
  • 1951 - Population: 179,372.[9]
  • 1963 – University of al-Qarawiyyin active.
  • 1973 - Population: 321,460 city; 426,000 urban agglomeration.[10]
  • 1981 – Medina of Fez designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • 1990 – 14 December: Labour strike.[11]
  • 1993 - Population: 564,000 urban agglomeration (estimate).[12]
  • 1994 – World Sacred Music Festival begins.
  • 1999 – Rabat–Fes expressway built.[13]

21st century
Satellite view of Fez, 2016

See also

References
  1. Bosworth 2007.
  2. Hsain Ilahiane (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6490-0.
  3. Watson 1996.
  4. Thomas K. Park; Aomar Boum (2006). "Fes". Historical Dictionary of Morocco (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6511-2.
  5. Michael E. Bonine (1990). "Islamic Cities of Morocco". In Oleg Grabar (ed.). Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. 4. Koninklijke Brill. p. 50+. ISBN 978-90-04-09347-8.
  6. Stacy E. Holden (2007). "Constructing an Archival Cityscape: Local Views of Colonial Urbanism in the French Protectorate of Morocco". History in Africa. 34: 121–132. doi:10.1353/hia.2007.0008. JSTOR 25483694.
  7. Lola Souad (1993). "Morocco". In Robert Wedgeworth (ed.). World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services (3rd ed.). American Library Association. p. 585+. ISBN 978-0-8389-0609-5.
  8. "Movie Theaters in Fez, Morocco". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  9. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  10. 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.
  11. Cairoli 1999.
  12. United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321.
  13. Sweco; Nordic Consulting Group (2003), Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans African Highways and the Missing Links (PDF), 2: Description of Corridors, African Development Bank and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
  14. The State of African Cities 2014. United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 2015-09-10. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0. Archived from the original on 2014-09-10.
  15. "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations

Bibliography

in English

Published in 19th century
Published in 20th century
  • "Fez", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • Edith Wharton (1920), "Fez", In Morocco, New York: Scribner
  • "Fez, Heart of Morocco", National Geographic Magazine, Washington DC, 67, 1935
  • Arden, Harvey (March 1986). "Morocco's Ancient City of Fez". National Geographic. 169 (3): 330–353. ISSN 0027-9358.
  • Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "Fes". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. p. 275+. ISBN 978-1884964039.
  • M. Laetitia Cairoli (1999). "Garment Factory Workers in the City of Fez". Middle East Journal. 53 (1): 28–43. JSTOR 4329282. PMID 22010309.
  • Stefano Bianca (2000), "(Fez)", Urban form in the Arab world, Verlag der Fachvereine Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zurich, ISBN 978-3728119728
Published in 21st century
  • Mark Ellingham (2001), "Fes", Rough Guide to Morocco (6th ed.), London: Rough Guides, p. 198+, OL 24218635M
  • Josef W. Meri, ed. (2006). "Fez". Medieval Islamic Civilization. Routledge. p. 257+. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
  • C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Fez". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 137+.
  • Simon O'Meara (2007). "Foundation Legend of Fez". In Amira K. Bennison and Alison L. Gascoigne (ed.). Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World. Routledge. p. 27+. ISBN 978-1-134-09650-3.
  • Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Fez", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 151–153
  • "Fez". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009.
  • Rachel Newcomb (2009). Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4124-2.

in French

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