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.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.