Photo by Bjorn Christian Torrissen
Its location between the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara Desert made the city an ideal trading outpost, and rulers built red-clay walls for protection. During the Middle Ages when Marrakech was a center of trade, Morocco ruled over much of Spain and North Africa. During the 15th-century Reconquista, some 800,000 Muslims and Jews fled or were driven out of Spain, arriving in Morocco. The region remained Berber until the 1550s, when a series o...
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