Yusuf ibn Tashfin takes command of Almoravids
1056
The Berber general began leading Almoravid forces north from the Senegal River into what is now Morocco. Over the next decade he would capture Sijilmasa, Fez, and Meknes, founding a new capital at Marrakesh and preparing the eventual invasion of Muslim Spain across the Strait of Gibraltar. Marrakesh, built from red clay on a barren plain, would grow into one of the great cities of the Islamic west.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.