Almoravid capital at Marrakesh flourishes

1077

Fifteen years after its founding, Yusuf ibn Tashfin's Saharan capital had become a walled city of palm gardens, great mosques, and caravan markets. The Koutoubia would rise a century later on foundations laid now. Marrakesh was the nerve center of a Berber empire reaching from Senegal to the Ebro River.